Yet, presently, there did come whirlings into my head; and someone did surely make to ease Mine Own Maid from mine arms.  But I held her, dumbly; and the blood to go the more from me; and they not to know what should be done.  And I to look at them.  And the dear Master Monstruwacan did be saying somewhat unto me, that I did have no power to hear; but only to know that his face did be very human.  And there went a strange noise all about me; and the Master Monstruwacan to seem to hold me up, and to beckon to some that did be to my back.  And lo! there came a blackness, and the gentleness of arms about mine armour....

And I to come presently to quietness and to half-dreams; and did alway to seem that I carried Mine Own Maid in mine arms.  But truly there did pass three great days, whilst that I did be thus.  And I all that while to be laid quiet, and to be tended by the Master Doctor, and aided by all knowledge that did be known of Humans.

And on the third day, as it might be called, I to come full unto my senses; and the pain to take me in the breast; and the Master of the Doctors did be with me, and they that nurst me; and the Master Doctor watched me very keen and gentle.

And I did be in a bed of the Health Room of mine own city.  And I gat from the bed, and the Doctor to say naught; but only to watch me.  And I walkt to and fro a little, and he alway to watch me; and presently he gave me somewhat to drink; and I drank.  And I was gone soon from all knowledge.

And I to come again unto a knowing that I yet to live; and there went a certain strength in my body.  And lo! the first that I did see, was the Master of the Doctors; and I to perceive in a moment that he had wakened me, and had nurst my strength for that moment, that I live through the Burial.  For he to be very wise, and to have known from that first seeing of me, that I not to live after that Mine Own did die.

And there was brought to me a loose garment; but I to refuse the garment, dumbly, and did look about me very troubled and forgetting.  And the Master Doctor lookt alway at me; and lo! in a moment he called one, and gave an order.  And there was brought in then my broken armour, and a garment to wear below.  And I then to know that I did be content in this matter; and the Doctor alway to watch me.  And they drest me in my broken armour.

And surely, as they drest me, my spirit to hear the sorrow and sympathy of the Multitudes, and did know that they went downward by millions, unto the Country of Silence.

And lo! in that moment when I near to be in mine armour, I to mind sudden again that I never to have waked to discover Mine Own Maid kissing me in my sleep.  And the Pain gat me in the breast, so that I had surely ended then, but that the Master Doctor set somewhat to my breath, that eased me, and gave something of dullness unto my senses for a while.

And I did be carried then in a sling unto the Great Lift, and there did be a bed in the lift, and the Doctor to have me to lie upon the bed; and I to know that he also to know that I never to need a bed any more; neither should I ever to come upward again in the Lift.