Then, as I slowly became aware, my head was utterly and entirely detached from my body, and went sailing off, deliberately, in front of me.

I could see it going distinctly, and yet, oddly enough, I could also see a sudden change come on the face of the girl who was stooping before me, and who at the moment raised her eyes.
"It is strange," thought I, "but my head, thus detached, is going to pass directly above her, right there!" Then I ceased to take interest in anything, and sank back into the arms of that from which we come, calmly taking bold of the hand of Mystery..