Nay, but they seemed to see her now for the first time.
This, only this, was she! And to Naomi also, at that moment, it was almost as if she had been newly born into life.

She was meeting the world at last face to face, eye to eye.

Into her darkened chamber, that had never known the light, everything had entered at a blow--the white glare of the sun, the blue sky, the tiled patio, the faces of the Kaid and his wife and his soldiers, and of the old man also, with the unshed tears hanging on the fringe of his eyelid.

She could not realise the marvel.

She did not know what vision was.