I do not know much of the ritual of the old Greek Church, which is the religion of the Blue Mountains, but the things which I saw before me could be none other than enlightening symbols.

Instinctively I knew that I had been brought hither, though in this grim way, to be married.

The very idea of it thrilled me to the heart's core.

I thought the best thing I could do would be to stay quite still, and not show surprise at anything that might happen; but be sure I was all eyes and ears.
I peered anxiously around me in every direction, but I could see no sign of her whom I had come to meet.
Incidentally, however, I noticed that in the lighting, such as it was, there was no flame, no "living" light.

Whatever light there was came muffled, as though through some green translucent stone.