Which knowledge drew confirmation from what immediately followed.

For, as by almost imperceptible degrees the brightness faded in the west, the figures, so mysteriously peopling the room, faded out also, until only the woman in homely garments was left.

By her side stood the charcoal drawing of Sir Charles Verity from off the wall--or seemed to do so, for almost at once, Damaris saw that dreaded interchange of personality again take place.

Saw the strongly marked features soften in outline, the face grow bearded yet younger by full thirty years.
Both the woman and the young man looked searchingly at her; and in the eyes of both she read the same question--what did she mean to do, what to say, when her father, the object of her adoration, came home to her, came back to Deadham Hard?
"I will do right," she cried out loud to them in answer, "Only trust me.
I am so tired and it is all so difficult to believe and to understand.
But I am trying to understand.

I shall understand, if you will give me time and not hurry me.