THE RETURN What happened after the passing of her vision Dinah never fully knew, so slack had become her grip upon material things.

Her spirit seemed to be wandering aimlessly about the mountain-side while her body lay in icy chains within that miserable shelter.

Of Isabel's presence she was no longer even dimly aware, and she knew neither fear nor pain, only a wide desolation of emptiness that encompassed her as atmosphere encompasses the world.
Sometimes she fancied that the sound of voices came muffled through the fog that hung impenetrably upon the great slope.

And when this fancy caught her, her spirit drifted back very swiftly to the near neighbourhood of that inert and frozen body that lay so helpless in the dark.

For that strange freedom of the spirit seemed to her to be highly dangerous and in a fashion wrong.