She thought it was just a question of developing it and she had lived in Scotland for long enough to know that in every village there was some old body who was consulted about the future because she had what people called ‘second sight’.
To Lily it was a gift that she thought she could use to further her ambitions.
If she could sense what a man was feeling and thinking, then her power over him would be even more effective than if he was just beguiled by her beauty.
She trained herself to try to see perceptively into the minds of almost everybody she met and she thought that on a number of occasions she had been extremely successful.
At any rate it made her find out quickly what were a man’s habits and interests.
Where women were concerned she had usually encouraged them to speak of th
