Chapter 56

Here, Vansitart Smith spoke to himself, saying

Death is not the end of life, but it is a passage to another world of the unseen that no one knows anything about, and I will not find the answer to my question: Will he really meet her, will he enjoy the closeness of his beloved in the afterlife, or is this just a wish he had without certainty that it will come true

If any evidence was needed as to how one of us and all of us came to an absolute belief in the spiritual existence of the Egyptian princess, it would be found in the change wrought in us in a few minutes by the statement of voluntariness and we have all believed the denial through Margaret, and though The advent of the dreaded ordeal, the sensation of which it was impossible to forget, we looked and acted as if a great relief had come to us. We had already lived in such a state of terror during the days when Mr. Trelawney lay in a coma that the feeling overwhelmed us deeply. No one knows until he experiences it,