He stayed with her the second night and all the second day. He could hear the sobs of her grieving parents, though they could not see either him or their daughter; but on the second night the little dog of his love came into the room where _it_ lay, the room in which their two souls still stood, and the little dog saw them and whined piteously. The man could hear it, and she also could hear it. And now she could hear him more plainly when he spoke to her. “Where will they take _it_?” she asked him. He recalled the time when he had been held spellbound near his own lifeless form, over which his loved one had shed bitter tears. And he asked her if it would not be better to come away altogether; but she could not, or thought she could not. On the third day he knew from the agitation of his love that they were placing her body in the coffin. After a while he felt, though he could not see, that many other persons were in the room, and he heard mournful music. Music can reach from one world to another, can be heard far more plainly than human voices, which generally cannot be heard at all except by the trained listener. By and by his love was sorely agitated, and he also, through sympathy with her; and they felt themselves going slowly--oh, so slowly!--along. And he said to her: “Do not be grieved. They are taking _it_ to the burial; but you are safe with me.” He knew that she was much troubled. It is not for nothing that over the house of death there always hangs a strange hush, not to be explained by the mere losing of the loved one. Those who remain behind feel, though they cannot see, the soul of the one who has gone out. Their souls are full of sympathy for him in his bewilderment. The change need not be painful if one would only remember that it has been passed through before; but one so easily forgets. We sometimes call the earth the Valley of Forgetfulness. During the days and weeks that followed this lover remained with his loved one, ever trying to draw her away from the earth and from _it_, which had for her, as for so many, a fearsome fascination. It is said that the souls of those who have lived long on earth more easily detach themselves; but this woman was still young, only about thirty; and even with the help of her lover it was a little time before she could get free. But one day (or night, as you would say) he showed her the home which he had built for her, and it was literally a mansion in the sky. She entered with him, and it became their home. Sometimes he leaves her for a little while, or she leaves him; for the joy of being together is heightened here, as on the earth, by an occasional separation; but not until she was content and accustomed to the new life did he leave her at all.