"What does he mean?" she said, helplessly. "Oh! what does he want?"
"The Life; I am the Life." The words came with difficulty now.
Then Piers, starting up, said:
"I know. I think I know. 'Jesus said, I am the resurrection and the Life.'"
A smile of infinite content came over the father's face.
"Yes," he said. "Yes, the Life."
Presently he murmured Melville's name, and those of the children who had gone before.
"The little girls all died but one," he said. "One is left—Sunshine."
They knelt down as in the presence of something unseen but near; for the shadows gathered on the fine face of the husband and father; and Piers repeated for the second time:
"Jesus said, I am the resurrection and the Life!"