It led me to a great open door, beneath the ascending steps of which it ran through a low arch and disappeared.

Entering here, I found myself in a great hall, surrounded with white pillars, and paved with black and white.

This I could see by the moonlight, which, from the other side, streamed through open windows into the hall.
Its height I could not distinctly see.

As soon as I entered, I had the feeling so common to me in the woods, that there were others there besides myself, though I could see no one, and heard no sound to indicate a presence.

Since my visit to the Church of Darkness, my power of seeing the fairies of the higher orders had gradually diminished, until it had almost ceased.