They closed their eyes and grew still in the chair. When at last they stirred, each one looked first at the room and then at the other person, with a gradually slain disbelief.
“We are not dead after all,” he cried. “The room does not fade away!”
They sat without moving, while happiness and sadness sprang into combat within them.
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES:
Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.
Unmatched opening quotation marks on page 17 have been retained from the original, as the transcriber could not ascertain exactly where the closing quotation marks, missing in the original, should be placed.