And to-morrow I would go.

That point was settled, and the page, meanwhile, turned down.

And for to-night I delivered myself up to the savouring of this hunger that was upon me.
And then, towards the third hour of night, as I still sat there, the door was very gently opened, and I beheld Giuliana standing before me.
She detached from the black background of the passage, and the light of my three-beaked lamp set her ruddy hair aglow so that it seemed there was a luminous nimbus all about her head.

For a moment this gave colour to my fancy that I beheld a vision evoked by the too great intentness of my thoughts.

The pale face seemed so transparent, the white robe was almost diaphanous, and the great dark eyes looked so sad and wistful.
Only in the vivid scarlet of her lips was there life and blood.
I stared at her.