It was my hand led thee from the path of Light to the path of Darkness, and for that I have paid the penalty as well as thou.
"For many ages, as time is counted in that other world, we have toiled, sometimes together, sometimes apart, sometimes in honour, sometimes in dishonour, yet ever struggling on to regain the heights which then we had so nearly won.

The High Gods permitted me to reach them first, and therefore it was my hand which was stretched out to lead thee across the Border.
"Now, my message to thee is this: Thou hast powers which no other man living in that lower state possesses; see to it that they be used rightly.

Forget not that in that other world sin and shame, oppression and misery, are as rife as, within the limits of time, they have ever been.

Make it thy concern that the forces of evil shall be weaker and not stronger for the use of these powers to which thou hast attained.
"We shall meet often in that other world, and that living other-self of mine, thy daughter in the flesh and bearer of my name, through every moment of her time-life, I shall watch and guard her, for she, too--although she knows it not--is approaching the light never seen by the Eye of Flesh, and, though strange things should befall her, it will be for thee in that other state, knowing what thou dost in the Higher Life, to help me in this task as in others.

Now, farewell, Ma-Rim[=o]n," she said, holding out her hands again.
As he took them, they melted in his grasp, two lustrous eyes looked at him for a moment and grew dim, and he was once more alone on Wimbledon Common.
"I think I'll be getting home," he said, looking at his watch, and he turned and walked slowly with bent head and hands clasped behind his back to the house..