And that, dear, was why I refused to recognize or see you when I met you on the stage or in the passages.

Meanwhile, the hours during which the voice taught me were spent in a divine frenzy, until, at last, the voice said to me, 'You can now, Christine Daae, give to men a little of the music of Heaven.' I don't know how it was that Carlotta did not come to the theater that night nor why I was called upon to sing in her stead; but I sang with a rapture I had never known before and I felt for a moment as if my soul were leaving my body!" "Oh, Christine," said Raoul, "my heart quivered that night at every accent of your voice.

I saw the tears stream down your cheeks and I wept with you.

How could you sing, sing like that while crying ?" "I felt myself fainting," said Christine, "I closed my eyes.

When I opened them, you were by my side.