She looked completely overcome.

Her face was deathly pale, and the dark rings around her eyes were larger and darker than ever.

She leaned back in her chair, which had a special rest for her head, and closed her eyes.
As neither Dr.Hull nor Alta showed any surprise at her condition, it was apparently the ordinary result of a seance.
To her faint inquiry whether the materialization had been satisfactory to Miss Ludington, the latter replied that it had been all, and more than all, she had dared dream of.

Dr.Hull, in a very enthusiastic manner, went on to describe the manifestation more particularly.

He declared that the present evening a new world of spirit-life had been revealed, and a new era in spiritualism had opened.
"I have been devoted to the study of spiritualism for thirty years," he exclaimed; "but I have never been present at so wonderful a seance as this.