In any case, there would be certain to be two parties on the subject, a dangerous and deplorable thing in the present condition of affairs.
As the trance, or catalepsy, whatever it was, continued for many days, there had been ample time for the leaders of the Council, the Vladika, the priesthood represented by the Archimandrite of Spazac, myself as Archbishop and guardian of the Voivodin in her father's absence, to consult as to a policy to be observed in case of the girl awaking.

For in such case the difficulty of the situation would be multiplied indefinitely.

In the secret chambers of St.Sava's we had many secret meetings, and were finally converging on agreement when the end of the trance came.
The girl awoke! She was, of course, terribly frightened when she found herself in a tomb in the Crypt.

It was truly fortunate that the great candles around her tomb had been kept lighted, for their light mitigated the horror of the place.

Had she waked in darkness, her reason might have become unseated.
She was, however, a very noble girl; brave, with extraordinary will, and resolution, and self-command, and power of endurance.