Towards the door he retreated, she following.

There was a sound as of the cooing sob of doves, which seemed to multiply and intensify with each second.

The sound from the unseen source rose and rose as he retreated, till finally it swelled out in a triumphant peal, as she with a fierce sweep of her arm, seemed to hurl something at her foe, and he, moving his hands blindly before his face, appeared to be swept through the doorway and out into the open sunlight.
"All at once my own faculties were fully restored; I could see and hear everything, and be fully conscious of what was going on.

Even the figures of the baleful group were there, though dimly seen as through a veil--a shadowy veil.

I saw Lilla sink down in a swoon, and Mimi throw up her arms in a gesture of triumph.