He was stirred profoundly by the passing glimpse at the secret, and he was again caught up in the vision of sunlit spaces and starry voids--until it came to him that it was very quiet, and he saw Ruth regarding him with an amused expression and a smile in her eyes.
"I have had a great visioning," he said, and at the sound of his words in his own ears his heart gave a leap.

Where had those words come from?
They had adequately expressed the pause his vision had put in the conversation.

It was a miracle.

Never had he so loftily framed a lofty thought.

But never had he attempted to frame lofty thoughts in words.
That was it.