Chapter 5

He had got hold of her hand and was looking up into that plain, commonplace, middle-aged woman’s face as if it were a glorified angel’s. At this moment I came to my senses and realized that I had no business there. They didn’t notice my departure at all because they had forgotten my very existence. I didn’t see Hester until the next morning. She came in to wake me up and sat on the edge of my bed and told me all about it. She had forgotten that I had been standing beside her and heard it all and I let her forget. “…