'Is This Not Unseemly Haste at Such an Hour?'

'I know not how it was, but all on a sudden the world melted away into a shadowy fantasy. And there, between the goodly abbot and the fair saxon lady, i fell into a pleasant, dreamless sleep' 'But to you, in the strange fate to which i am liable will at once occur suspicion and expectation,' he writes of his last night's dreams. He adds: 'And then with indescribable sensations of mingled pain and satisfaction that life dawned again in my mind and body after the drowsy ending of the last chapter'