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Love's Eternal Altar.
Now of all these happenings I said very little to Bastin and Bickley.
The former would not have understood them, and the latter attributed what I did tell him to mental delusions following on my illness.

To Yva I did speak about them, however, imploring her to explain their origin and to tell me whether or not they were but visions of the night.
She listened to me, as I thought not without anxiety, from which I gathered that she too feared for my mind.

It was not so, however, for she said: "I am glad, O Humphrey, that your journeyings are done, since such things are not without danger.

He who travels far out of the body may chance to return there no more." "But were they journeyings, or dreams ?" I asked.
She evaded a direct answer.
"I cannot say.