In fact there IS!--and after his examination he seemed more puzzled than ever.
He said something about 'an exceptionally strong power of vision,' but frankly admitted that power of vision alone would not account for it.
Anyhow I plainly saw all the rays within one ray--there were seven.

The ray itself was--or so I fancied--the octave of colour.

I was little more than a child when this 'interval' of happiness--PERFECT happiness!--was granted to me--I felt as if a window had been opened for me to look through it into heaven!" "Do you believe in heaven ?" asked Aloysius, suddenly.
She hesitated.
"I used to,--in those days.

As I have just said I was only a child, and heaven was a real place to me,--even the angels were real presences--" "And you have lost them now ?" She gave a little gesture of resignation.
"They left me"-- she answered--"I did not lose them.

They simply went." He was silent.