Then she was silent and quite still, and he sat and watched the gradual lifting of the spirit's cloud--watched, until the pallor of her face grew luminous with the inner light, and her wide open eyes saw, as in a vision, things, invisible to mortal sight; but open to the spirit on that dazzling line where mortal and immortal verge.
And as he went home, stepping slowly through the misty world, he himself hardly knew whether he was in the body or out of it. He felt not the dripping rain, he was not conscious of the encompassing earthly vapours, he had passed within the veil and was worshipping "In dazzling temples opened straight to Him, Where One who had great lightnings for His crown Was suddenly made present; vast and dim Through crowded pinions of the Cherubim."
And his feet stumbled not, nor was he aware of anything around, until the Earl met him at the park gates and touching him said reverently-"Father, you are close to the highway. Have you seen Annie?"
"I have just left her."
"She is further from us than ever."
"Richard Hyde," he answered," she is on her way to God, and she can rest nothing short of that."