" How could I go out of the room without saying anything to her? But now she is no more.

She has gone away from us forever.

She is....

" Suddenly the shadow of the screen wavered, pounced on the whole cornice, the whole ceiling; other shadows from the other side swooped to meet it, for an instant the shadows flitted back, but then with fresh swiftness they darted forward, wavered, commingled, and all was darkness.

" Death!" she thought.