Now in broad daylight, the generous sunshine flooding him, the smooth river purring and glittering at his feet, belief in grim and ghostly happenings became more than ever inadmissible, not to say quite arrantly grotesque.

Yet Damaris' version of those same happenings tallied with his own in every point.

And that her conviction of their reality was genuine, profound indeed to the point of pain, admitted neither of question nor of doubt..