she asked.

“So you really thought it was the ‘Voices’? What was their message, Cassandra?”

“I couldn’t make it out then, but I thought of this place and of father, and it was all at once like as if he would make me know something, and I prayed God would he lead me to understand was it a message or not. So that was the way I kept on following — until I — ”

“You came to me, dear?”

“Yes.”

“And what did you think the interpretation was then?”

“Yes, it was you — you, David. It was love — and hope — and gladness — everything, everything — ”