"And she laughed.

...

I could not bear it." Celia was silent, and Mme.

Dauvray went on in a voice of awe: "I told her of the wonderful things which happened when I sat with Helene in the dark--how the room filled with strange sounds, how ghostly fingers touched my forehead and my eyes.

She laughed--Adele Rossignol laughed, Celie.