We came to a house set amid scented gardens and having in front of it terraces of flowers.  It seemed not unlike my own house at home, but I took little note of it, because of a woman who sat upon the verandah, if I may call it so.  She was clad in garments of white silk fastened about her middle with a jewelled girdle.  On her neck also was a collar of jewels.  I forget the colour; indeed this seemed to change continually as the light from the different moons struck when she moved, but I think its prevailing tinge was blue.  In her arms this woman nursed a beauteous, sleeping child, singing happily as she rocked it to and fro.  Yva went towards the woman who looked up at her step and uttered a little cry.  Then for the first time I saw the woman’s face.  It was that of my dead wife!

As I followed in my dream, a little cloud of mist seemed to cover both my wife and Yva, and when I reached the place Yva was gone.  Only my wife remained, she and the child.  There she stood, solemn and sweet.  While I drew near she laid down the child upon the cushioned seat from which she had risen.  She stretched out her arms and flung them about me.  She embraced me and I embraced her in a rapture of reunion.  Then turning she lifted up the child, it was a girl, for me to kiss.

“See your daughter,” she said, “and behold all that I am making ready for you where we shall dwell in a day to come.”

I grew confused.

“Yva,” I said.  “Where is Yva who brought me here?  Did she go into the house?”

“Yes,” she answered happily.  “Yva went into the house.  Look again!”

I looked and it was Yva’s face that was pressed against my own, and Yva’s eyes that gazed into mine.  Only she was garbed as my wife had been, and on her bosom hung the changeful necklace.

“You may not stay,” she whispered, and lo! it was my wife that spoke, not Yva.

“Tell me what it means?” I implored.

“I cannot,” she answered.  “There are mysteries that you may not know as yet.  Love Yva if you will and I shall not be jealous, for in loving Yva you love me.  You cannot understand?  Then know this, that the spirit has many shapes, and yet is the same spirit—­ sometimes.  Now I who am far, yet near, bid you farewell a while.”

Then all passed in a flash and the dream ended.

Such was the only one of those visions which I can recall.

I seemed to wake up as from a long and tumultuous sleep.  The first thing I saw was the palm roof of our house upon the rock.  I knew it was our house, for just above me was a palm leaf of which I had myself tied the stalk to the framework with a bit of coloured ribbon that I had chanced to find in my pocket.  It came originally from the programme card of a dance that I had attended at Honolulu and I had kept it because I thought it might be useful.  Finally I used it to secure that loose leaf.  I stared at the ribbon which brought back a flood of memories, and as I was thus engaged I heard voices talking, and listened—­Bickley’s voice, and the Lady Yva’s.