Renée looked at Delapine's body, and to her horror she saw it had shrunk to two-thirds its former size, but her mother calmed her and reassured her at once.
"You need not be in the least alarmed, my darling, he will get all his substance restored to him the moment I am gone."
"Oh! mother, how you did frighten me," she said, "but do you manufacture the drapery you are wearing, as well as your body, out of the substance of his body as well?"
"Yes, everything, and in a few moments, without the least difficulty."
"Why do you surround yourself with such thick white stuff?"
"The drapery is thrown out to protect our psychic bodies from the light which acts injuriously on us when materialized," her mother replied.
"Now, Renée dear, I must leave you because I cannot hold my power any longer, and besides it will injure Delapine if I do, as although he has returned to his body, he is so very weak that a very little thing might really kill him now. I will come again and see you very soon."
Her mother kissed her affectionately on both cheeks, and then relaxing her hold, she slowly melted down into the ground and vanished.
Renée was too excited to sleep any more that night, so she got up and lit the lamp.
She held it close to Delapine, and to her surprise she saw that he had returned to his former size and weight.