title: The Mirrors of Narcissus
author:  Nicole Kavner Miller 
description: Nicole Miller, PhD is an experienced lecturer, teacher, freelance editor, writer, and life coach, she guides her audiences and students to look beyond the ordinary appearance of their lives, and reach instead for the mythic  that spark of possibility and wonderment in all of us.
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  # Table Of Contents
  
  
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  [Mary Roberts Rinehart](The%20Confession_split_002.html#filepos1251)  
  [I](The%20Confession_split_002.html#filepos1315)  
  [II](The%20Confession_split_002.html#filepos46497)  
  [III](The%20Confession_split_002.html#filepos85796)  
  [IV](The%20Confession_split_002.html#filepos127596)  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # The Confession
  
  
  ### Mary Roberts Rinehart
  
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  I am not a susceptible woman. I am objective rather than subjective, and a
  fairly full experience of life has taught me that most of my impressions are
  from within out rather than the other way about. For instance, obsession at
  one time a few years ago of a shadowy figure on my right, just beyond the
  field of vision, was later exposed as the result of a defect in my glasses. In
  the same way Maggie, my old servant, was during one entire summer haunted by
  church-bells and considered it a personal summons to eternity until it was
  shown to be in her in