"It is as though that life was still the real one and this only a dream.... I was in a bed. Five minutes ago I was in bed. I was dying.... The doctor said, 'He is going.' And I heard the rustle of my wife coming across the room...."
"Your wife!" cried Sunray.
"Yes—my wife—Milly."
Sunray looked at Willow with raised eyebrows and a helpless expression.
Sarnac stared at her, dreamily puzzled. "Milly," he repeated very faintly. "She was by the window."
For some moments no one spoke.
Radiant stood with his arm on Firefly's shoulder.
"Tell us about it, Sarnac. Was it hard to die?"
"I seemed to sink down and down into quiet—and then I woke up here."
"Tell us now, while it is still so real to you."