GOD 1 Half an hour later he was in his room again, and the real world had come back to him.

It had come back with the surprise of some supernatural mechanism; it was as though the sofa, chairs, pictures had five minutes before been grass and toadstools in a world of mist and now were sofa, chairs and pictures again.
He was absolutely sane, whereas half an hour ago he had been held almost by an enchantment.

If Margaret were here with him now, here in his room--not in that dim, horrible Rocket Road house, raised it might almost seem by the superstitions and mists of his own conscience--ah! how he would love her! He was filled with a sense of energy and enterprise.

He would have it out with Rupert, laugh away his suspicions, reconcile him to the idea of the marriage, finally drag Margaret from that horrible house.

As with a man who has furious attacks of neuralgia, and between the agony of them feels, so great is the relief, that no pain will ever come to him again, so Olva was now, for an instant, the Olva of a month ago.
Four times had the Pursuer thus given him respite--on the morning after the murder, in St.Martin's Chapel on that same evening, after his confession to Bunning, and now.