It is the best thing you
can do. I have never gone through this myself, but I have seen and known
the amazingness of it for many years. I have seen it come and go."
"Can you imagine," Mount Dunstan said, "that the most damnable thought
of all--when a man is passing through it--is the possibility of its
GOING? Anything else rather than the knowledge that years could change
or death could end it! Eternity seems only to offer space for it. One
knows--but one does not believe. It does something to one's brain."
"No scientist, howsoever profound, has ever discovered what," the vicar
mused aloud.
"The Book of Revelations has shown to me how--how MAGNIFICENT life might
be!" Mount Dunstan clenched and unclenched his hands, his eyes flashing.
"Magnificent--that is the word. To go to her on equal ground to take her
hands and speak one's passion as one would--as her eyes answered. Oh,
one would know! To bring her home to this place--having made it as it
once was--to live with her here--to be WITH her as the sun rose and set
and the seasons changed--with the joy of life filling each of them. SHE
is the joy of Life--the very heart of it. You see where I am--you see!"
"Yes," Penzance answered.
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