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It was not that in her deliberate mind she conceived that he would be hunted, that he would fly here, that she would save him; but rather in that strange realm of consciousness which is called sometimes the Imagination, and sometimes by other names that inner shadow-show on which move figures cast by the two worlds she perceived him in this place....
Partly it was the contrast between the homely associations of the Feast, begun, as it was for her, with the mass before dawn the room at the top of the widow's house was crowded all the while she was there between these associations and the unfamiliarity of the place. It seemed to her as a shadow-show without sense or meaning, since the heart of Christmas was gone.
Kyrie eleison ... Gloria in excelsis Deo ... those things passed like a shadow-show, with movements and rustlings, but he perceived rather the light which cast them. He heard Deus qui in hodierna die ... but his passive mind gave no pulse of reflex action, no stir of understanding until these words. Cum complerentur dies Pentecostes....
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