Quaking, reeling, almost falling, she came tottering down the patio.

Soul and sense seemed to be struggling together in her blind face.

What did it all mean?
What was happening?
Her fixed eyes stared as if they must burst the bonds that bound them, and look and see, and know! At that moment God wrought a mighty work, a wondrous change, such as He has brought to pass but twice or thrice since men were born blind into His world of light.

In an instant, at a thought, by one spontaneous flash, as if the spirit of the girl tore down the dark curtains which had hung for seventeen years over the windows of her eyes, Naomi saw! They all knew it at once.

It seemed to them as if every feature of the girl's face had leapt into her eyes; as if the expression of her lips, her brow, her nostrils, had sprung to them: as if her face, so fair before, so full of quivering feeling, must have been nothing until then but a blank.