"Catalepsy," as some call it--"hysteria," as others say--this alone is certain, the same interval always passes; the same change always appears.
It comes now.

Not a change in her eyes; they still remain wide open, fixed and glassy.

The first movement is a movement of her hands.

They rise slowly from her side and waver in the air like the hands of a person groping in the dark.

Another interval, and the movement spreads to her lips: they part and tremble.