It had
now rushed to the surface so that she recognised it; that was all.
And it has always seemed to me that the presence of John Silence, so
potent, so quietly efficacious, produced an effect, if one may say so,
of a psychic forcing-house, and hastened incalculably the bringing
together of these two "wild" lovers. In that sudden awakening had
occurred the very psychological climax required to reveal the passionate
emotion accumulated below. The deeper knowledge had leaped across and
transferred itself to her ordinary consciousness, and in that shock the
collision of the personalities had shaken them to the depths and shown
her the truth beyond all possibility of doubt.
"He's sleeping quietly now," the doctor said, interrupting my
reflections. "If you will watch alone for a bit I'll go to Maloney's
tent and help him to arrange his thoughts." He smiled in anticipation of
that "arrangement." "He'll never quite understand how a wound on the
Double can transfer itself to the physical body, but at least I can
persuade him that the less he talks and 'explains' to-morrow, the sooner
the forces will run their natural course now to peace and quietness.
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