To think his vanishing unnatural:

Doors there were many, through which, by the laws

Of physics, bodies whether short or tall

Might come or go; but Juan could not state

Through which the Spectre seemed to evaporate.

XXV.

He stood—how long he knew not, but it seemed

An age—expectant, powerless, with his eyes

Strained on the spot where first the figure gleamed

Then by degrees recalled his energies,