He said:

“At the side of whom?”

The voice said:

“Love.”

He looked. The darkness disappeared, and a flood of light streamed around them and away into limitless space. He said:

“I have found the Light.”

And she whispered:

“You are my god.”

Kinsan had arisen, and together they walked into the cave, and there sat and looked and talked and reasoned for a long time.

Not so very long before Shibusawa’s arrival at the cave a mysterious voice had called Kinsan, and she had gone there, kneeling at the stone steps as she had knelt and prayed since their last meeting. From that time she had not entered the enclosure, but held it as a place sacred even to her. It was the throne upon which sat her love, her life, her god. There she could not enter, but at his feet she was wont to kneel and pray that he be saved, that the light return, and that he proclaim her his own, his goddess love.