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Updated: May 6, 2025
I little thought you would wish to make me so happy. I shrank from showing you the letter lest you should think I dared to hope.... It is not only Velna; it is such strange joy and comfort to be held fast by one who cares to feel safe in hands as kind as they are strong.
The hands dropped; and Eveena's closed for ever on the sights of this world the eyes whose last vision had been of another. Leading Eveena from the room, I hastily dictated every precaution that could diminish the danger to her and others. Velna had run risks that could not well be increased, and on her and on myself must devolve what remained to be done.
When bitter trouble befals you in life, or when, alone, you find yourself face to face with death, you may think of what has passed to-day. Then remember, for your comfort, my last words I forgive you, and I wish you happy." To Velna I could not speak.
I could not bear it, and at last took my resolve and dismissed Velna, forbidding her to return till summoned. "Ah!" said Eunané, "you send her away that she may not see the last. Is it so near?" "No, darling!" You dread death not as a short terrible pain, and for you it will not be so, not as a short sleep, but as eternal senselessness and nothingness.
Ah! let me thank you and Eveena while I can for everything, and above all for Velna.... But," after another long pause, "it is terrible and horrible never to wake, to move, to hear your voices, to see you, to look upon the sunlight, to think, or even to dream again!
From that time I scarcely left her chamber save for a few minutes, and Velna remained constantly at her friend's side, save when, to give her at least a chance of escape, I sent her to her room to bathe, change her dress, and seek the fresh air for the half hour during which alone I could persuade her to leave the sufferer.
Eunané was seldom insensible or even delirious, and her quick intelligence caught very speedily the meaning of my close attendance, and of the distress which neither Velna nor I could wholly conceal. She asked and extracted from me what I knew of the origin of her illness, and answered, with a far stronger feeling than I should have expected even from her
I had seen as yet very little of Velna, Eunané's school companion; but now, calling her apart, I told her frankly that I feared some illness of my own Earth had by some means been communicated to her friend.
This time it is not merely my absence, if it ever were so. I will know who or what has driven and hunted you so." Taken thus by surprise, every face but one bore witness to the truth: Eveena's distress, Eunané's mixed relief and dismay, shared in yet greater degree by Velna, who knew less of me, the sheer terror and confusion of the rest, were equally significant.
Here Eivé and the others joined us and took their places on my right. Eveena, leaving her seat for a moment, spoke apart with Eunané. "Will you speak to her?" she said, returning. "She is Eunané's friend and correspondent, Velna; and I think they are really fond of each other.
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