It was clear that during Peter's long narrative some of them had visions.

When he began to tell how, at the moment of Ascension, the clouds closed in under the feet of the Saviour, covered Him, and hid Him from the eyes of the Apostles, all heads were raised toward the sky unconsciously, and a moment followed as it were of expectation, as if those people hoped to see Him or as if they hoped that He would descend again from the fields of heaven, and see how the old Apostle was feeding the sheep confided to him, and bless both the flock and him.
Rome did not exist for those people, nor did the man Caesar; there were no temples of pagan gods; there was only Christ, who filled the land, the sea, the heavens, and the world.
At the houses scattered here and there along the Via Nomentana, the cocks began to crow, announcing midnight.

At that moment Chilo pulled the corner of Vinicius's mantle and whispered,--"Lord, I see Urban over there, not far from the old man, and with him is a maiden." Vinicius shook himself, as if out of a dream, and, turning in the direction indicated by the Greek, he saw Lygia..