I could talk to him all the time, too, or count the knobs on the wardrobe, or listen to the Major and Gertie in the garden--and yet go on all the time seeing things.

I knew it wasn't any good talking to Doctor Whitty himself much, though I can't imagine why a man like that doesn't see it all for himself....
"It seems to me most extraordinary now that I ever could have had those other thoughts I told Father H.about--I mean about sins, and about wondering whether, after all, the Church was actually true.

In a sort of way, of course, they come back to me still, and I know perfectly well I must be on my guard; but somehow it's different.
"Well, all this is what Father H.calls the 'Illuminative Way,' and I think I understand what he means.

It came to a sort of point on All Souls' Eve at the monastery.

I saw the whole thing then for a moment or two, and not only Purgatory.