showed few signs of life as we stood before that immenseness; he said patiently that it resembled the postals, and followed me inside the portals with languor.
It was all grey hollowness in the vast place.

The windows showed not any colour nor light; the splendid pillars soared up into the air and disappeared as if they mounted to heights of invisibility in the sky at night.

Very far away, at the other end of the church it seemed, one lamp was burning, high over the transept.

One could not see the chains of support nor the roof above it; it seemed a great star, but so much all alone.

We walked down the long aisle to stand nearer to it, the darkness growing deeper as we advanced.