We are at your side.'" Catherine trembled.

She seemed on the edge of a world of which in all her cosseted life she had never dreamed, a world of beautiful and terrible things.

There was rapture in it, and a great awe.

She had forgotten her grievances in wonder.
"Do not shrink from me," said the voice which seemed to have won an unearthly sweetness.

"Let us sit together and tell our thoughts.