As they sat and listened, their nerves were quieted; the heat and soreness of their lips, the result of incessant talking and laughing, was smoothed away.

They sat very still as if they saw a building with spaces and columns succeeding each other rising in the empty space.

Then they began to see themselves and their lives, and the whole of human life advancing very nobly under the direction of the music.

They felt themselves ennobled, and when Rachel stopped playing they desired nothing but sleep.
Susan rose.

"I think this has been the happiest night of my life!" she exclaimed.