I feel a wonderful peace and rest tonight. It is as if some haunting presence were removed from me. Perhaps⁠ ⁠…

My surmise was not finished, could not be; for I caught sight in the mirror of the red mark upon my forehead; and I knew that I was still unclean.

Dr.

Seward’s Diary.

5 October.

⁠—We all rose early, and I think that sleep did much for each and all of us. When we met at early breakfast there was more general cheerfulness than any of us had ever expected to experience again.