This day that moment may draw near to you or me, and if so, surely we shall greet it well.

Such is Bastin's lesson, which I have striven to learn." Then she flung her arms about me and kissed me on the brow as a mother might, and was gone.
Strangely enough, perhaps because of my mental exhaustion, for what I had passed through seemed to overwhelm me so that I could no longer so much as think with clearness, even after all that I have described I slept like a child and awoke refreshed and well.
I looked at my watch to find that it was now eight o'clock in the morning in this horrible place where there was neither morn, nor noon, nor night, but only an eternal brightness that came I knew not whence, and never learned.
I found that I was alone, since Bickley and Bastin had gone to fill our bottles with the Life-water.

Presently they returned and we ate a little; with that water to drink one did not need much food.

It was a somewhat silent meal, for our circumstances were a check on talk; moreover, I thought that the others looked at me rather oddly.

Perhaps they guessed something of my midnight visit to the temple, but if so they thought it wisest to say nothing.