Be satisfied.

She is dead." You may justly be surprised, that, in the circumstances in which I heard the tidings, and notwithstanding the mystery which environed him by whom they were imparted, I could give an undivided attention to the facts, which were the subject of our dialogue.

I eagerly inquired, when and where did she die?
What was the cause of her death?
Was her death absolutely certain?
An answer was returned only to the last of these questions.

"Yes," was pronounced by the same voice; but it now sounded from a greater distance, and the deepest silence was all the return made to my subsequent interrogatories.
"It was my sister's voice; but it could not be uttered by her; and yet, if not by her, by whom was it uttered?
When we returned hither, and discovered you together, the doubt that had previously existed was removed.

It was manifest that the intimation came not from her.