There was another sigh, close at my ear.

I appeared to feel the warm breath of it displacing the sleet-laden wind.

I knew no living thing in flesh and blood was by; but, as certainly as you perceive the approach to some substantial body in the dark, though it cannot be discerned, so certainly I felt that Cathy was there: not under me, but on the earth.

A sudden sense of relief flowed from my heart through every limb.

I relinquished my labour of agony, and turned consoled at once: unspeakably consoled.
Her presence was with me: it remained while I re-filled the grave, and led me home.