Chapter 13

She answered, "Not by my will. For the fear is less since my resolution denied it; and how do we know that the higher platforms, may not show us the entrance which we seek? Or that my sight may not avail when we gain them?" But her sight did not return, and though I was able to convey the scene so that she walked confidently, yet our minds could not divert to the exchange of other thoughts--could, indeed, scarcely think at all, without reducing her to a darkness which was not merely such as I had experienced on t…