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She opened her eyes

"You are still praying?" he said

She nodded

He got up without a word and ca forith his hands on his knees to peer into her face Again, to her astonish narrowly at the strange person who looked through Laurie's eyes and spoke through his mouth It was all as unreal as a fantastic dreaao on praying?"

"Yes"

"Do you think it's the slightest use?"

"Yes"

He smiled unnaturally, as if the muscles of his mouth were not perfectly obedient

"Well, I have warned you," he said

Then he turned, went back to his couch, and this ti over on his side, away fro She looked at hiain

Five minutes later she understood

The first symptom of which she as a powerlessness to formulate her prayers Up to that point she had leaned, as has been said, on an enormous Power external to herself, yet approached by an interior way Now it required an effort of the will to hold to that Power at all In terms of space, let it be said that she had rested, like a child in the dark, upon Soer sustained her; but that it needed a strong continuous effort to apprehend it at all There was still the dark about her; but it was of a different quality--it cannot be expressed otherwise--it was as the darkness of an unknown gulf compared to the darkness of a familiar rooless

The next symptom was a sense of terror, co down as she stood on the stairs four or five hours before That, however, had been external to her; she had entered it Now it had entered her, and lay, heavy as pitch, upon the very springs of her interior life It was terror of so to come That which it heralded was not yet co

The third sympto of a bear; so swift that it was upon her through the dark before she could stir or act It came upon her, in a flash at the last; and she understood the whole secret