He still had his hand familiarly on Halsey's arm, for he had been conducting him out of the water.
"This is the elect sister ?" Smith asked in a hesitating tone, as if still striving with memory.

"Does she desire baptism ?" "Not yet," answered Halsey, "but I have asked the Lord for her soul, and I believe that it has been given." In Halsey's mind up to this moment there was, no doubt, only the solicitude of the missionary spirit; but Smith was a man whose mind was cast in a different mould; he had already marked the solicitude and given it his own interpretation, and he had already opened his own eyes upon her beauty.

How far this had conscious connection with the condition of actual trance into which he now fell cannot be known.

It is probable that what the Psalmist calls the "secret parts" are not in such minds as Smith's open to the man's own eye.
Smith became wrapped in a sudden ecstasy.

Oblivious of all around him, he looked up into the heavens, and it was apparent that his eyes were not beholding the material objects around.