What had he heard?
What had he seen?
"Halt!" But even as she called the tall grass closed in behind the elephant.
What water and food she had disappeared with him.
She paused by the brazier, catching hold of it for support.

She laughed hysterically: it was so funny; it was all so out of joint with real things, with every-day life as she had known it.

Weird laughter returned to mock her astonished ears, a sinister echo.

And then she laughed at the echo, being in the grip of a species of madness.

In the purple caverns of the temple she suddenly became conscious of another presence.