A deaf man, regaining his lost sense, cannot describe the sudden burst of sound that fills the new, strange world wherein he finds himself.

So, now, this cultured, gently bred woman, for the first time in her life understanding the facts, glimpsing the tragedy and grasping the answer to it all, felt that no words could compass her strange exultation and enlargement.
"It--it's like a chrysalis emerging into the form of a light, swift butterfly!" she pondered, as, back in her room once more, she prepared to write two letters.

"Just for the present, I can't understand it all.
I don't know, yet, whether I'm worthy to be a Socialist, to be one of that company of earnest, noble men and women striving for life and liberty and joy for all the world.

But with the help of the man I trust and honor and believe in, and--and love--perhaps I may yet be.

God grant it may be so!" She thought, a few minutes more, her face lighted by an inner radiance that made its beauty spiritual and pure and calm.