The voice without a body went on singing; and certainly Raoul had never in his life heard anything more absolutely and heroically sweet, more gloriously insidious, more delicate, more powerful, in short, more irresistibly triumphant. He listened to it in a fever and he now began to understand how Christine Daaé was able to appear one evening, before the stupefied audience, with accents of a beauty hitherto unknown, of a superhuman exaltation, while doubtless still under the influence of the mysterious and invisible master.

The voice was singing the Wedding-night Song from Romeo and Juliet . Raoul saw Christine stretch out her arms to the voice as she had done, in Perros churchyard, to the invisible violin playing “ The Resurrection of Lazarus .” And nothing could describe the passion with which the voice sang:

“Fate links thee to me forever and a day!”