I recalled to his mind the day when Zara had used her power to repulse him.
"Disbelieve as you will in electric spiritual force," I said.

"Your message to her then through me was--TELL HER I HAVE SEEN HER LOVER." At these words a sombre shadow flitted over the Prince's face.
"I tell you," he said slowly, "that I believe I was on that occasion the victim of an hallucination.

But I will explain to you what I saw.

A superb figure, like, and yet unlike, a man, but of a much larger and grander form, appeared to me, as I thought, and spoke.

'Zara is mine,' it said--'mine by choice; mine by freewill; mine till death; mine after death; mine through eternity.