'Now you have found it! Now you have found it!' my heart kept singing.
"When all the other people left I left too--in a dream.

For it had passed into a dream--into a beautiful dream that was going to shelter it for me forever.
"I stood around watching the beautiful people getting into their carriages.

And I couldn't make myself believe that it was in the same world with Centralia.
"Then after a while it occurred to me that all those people were going home.

Everybody was going home.
"At first I wasn't frightened.

Something inside me was singing over and over the songs of the opera.