“It is our home, Regan!” said Rondah.
“It is a world, a little kingdom!” answered Regan.
“Our home! The long, long years! I thought they would never end! This time I thought it would never come!”
“How came you to be so gloriously beautiful, Rondah?”
“I do not know! It was hope in your coming, I think!”
“It was the blessing of a hermit, who has become an angel!” said the angel-man. “Rondah on Earth was robbed of many blessings. I could bless her life with one chief happiness. I chose beauty. Regan, did I choose rightly?”
“Oh! marvelously right! The angels will stop to look upon her face when comes the next translation!”
“Are there people in the star?”
“Father Renaudin is there! He waits for us!”
“There are no other humankind?”