"You have had no communication recognized by you as such, I grant.

And I, who am so much older than you, must say the same.

If there be any special fitness in the night, in its absorbing dimness, and isolating silence, for such communication--and who can well doubt it ?--I have put myself in the heart of it a thousand times, when, longing after an open vision, I should have counted but the glimpse of a ghostly garment the mightiest boon, but never therefrom has the shadow of a feather fallen upon me.

Yet here I am, hoping no less, and believing no less! The air around me may be full of ghosts--I do not know; I delight to think they may somehow be with us, for all they are so unseen; but so long as I am able to believe and hope in the one great ghost, the Holy Ghost that fills all, it would trouble me little to learn that betwixt me and the visible centre was nothing but what the senses of men may take account of.

If there be a God, he is all in all, and filleth all things, and all is well.