What were you dreaming about ?" Beatrice looked at him doubtfully; perhaps his words did not ring quite true.
"I think that I had better tell you as I have said so much," she answered.

"Besides, it was a very curious dream, and if I believed in dreams it would rather frighten me, only fortunately I do not.

Sit down and I will tell it to you before I forget it.

It is not very long." He took the chair to which she pointed, and she began, speaking in the voice of one yet laden with the memories of sleep.
"I dreamed that I stood in space.

Far to my right was a great globe of light, and to my left was another globe, and I knew that the globes were named Life and Death.