"As I went up the steps to the churchyard the whole town seemed to be full of dogs all howling at once. Then I had a vague memory of something long and dark with red eyes, just as we saw in the sunset. Also all around me I felt something very sweet - and very bitter at the same time. And then I felt as though I was sinking into deep, green water. I heard singing in my ears. They say drowning men hear that. And then everything seemed to pass away from me. My soul seemed to go out from my body and float about in the air. I seem to remember that once the West Lighthouse was right under me. Then there was a sort of agonizing feeling, as if I were in an earthquake. I came back and found you shaking my body. I saw you do it before I felt you shaking me."

Then she began to laugh. It seemed a little uncanny to me, and I listened to her breathlessly. I did not like it, and thought it better for her not to think about it any more, so we moved on to another subject. After that Lucy was like her old self again. When we got home the fresh breeze had braced her up, and her pale cheeks were really more rosy. Her mother was very pleased when she saw Lucy like that, and we all spent a very happy evening together.