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it remained motionless. The livingness of everything seemed to be torn asunder by the deep but quiet sobs coming intermittently c ad from Adam. and I did not look at him. The music, the dance and the sheer loveliness of the girl held me captivated. In the climaxing moment of her dance, one thing remained apparent: The over-all effect was rejuvenating and wholesome. I became one in love with her, with everyone and everything, row 1c including motion itself. While Adam was in the grip of anguished memory, I was experiencing an opposite reaction. I heard the music I most longed to hear, I watched a near-angel dancing to it, I saw a face and form which left nothing to be desired. Seeing her, I saw 1 W Two wet spots on the table were the visible evidence of Adam’s soul-purging. Unmindful of my presence, he wept on profusely, yet in a strange rapture. The music became a crescendo, apparently heedless of the fact that others in the cafe might hear it. The girl’s dancing accelerated to a living tornado. Then came a crash of cymbals and drums, a steady roll of musical thunder, and she whirled in my direction, looking for the first time squarely into my eyes as she fell gracefully to her knees. Hers was a stern, accusing look. I would have wilted under the impact of it, except for her beauty. Anything would be a pleasure, coming from her. She was the personification of the etheric hosts, and she told me by her intense look and her graceful finale that she condemned me, not only on her own behalf, but by the bidding of all life in the cosmos. She was clearly conveying the message that I would yet come down a few notches in my arrogant self-esteem. (I mistakenly thought I had long ago shed false pride and arrogance, but evidently the higher civilizations did not think so.) Because she was so delicately beautiful, so gentle, so incapable of giving harm to body or spirit, I accepted her stern, silent pronouncement at once. 33 THE DANCE IN A GLASS I was aware that he saw and felt more than I could see or feel, heaven all around.