Now it seemed to her unquiet sight to be a furnace.

Outside the world was burning; she could feel the heat of it in the close cabin.

For a second acute fear startled her weakness.

It passed, her eyes cleared, and she saw the homely doorway as it was, and heard the gobble of a turkey in the forest.
The fright had awakened her mind and senses.

For the first time she fully realised her condition.