She was so earnest, so grave, I began to be terribly afraid. I said, ‘How shall you do it? Oh, Selina, how can it be true? How shall you come to me, through the empty air?’ She looked at me and smiled, then reached and took my hand. She turned my fingers and eased back my glove, and held my wrist a little way before her mouth. She said, ‘What is there, between my mouth and your bare arm? But don’t you feel me, when I do this?’ Then she breathed upon my wrist, where the blood shows blue—she seemed to draw all the heat in me to that one spot, and I shivered. ‘Just so will I come to you, tomorrow
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