"It's only something his sister wanted to know," she said casually.
"I thought you'd be seeing him soon.I hardly ever do.""Yes, I'm going up there to-night," said Caroline staring at Maggie.
"Well, I'll give it you before you go," then she went on as casually as she could."What's been happening lately?""Of course you know all about the excitement," said Caroline sitting back in the faded arm-chair with her blue dress spread all about her like a cloud.
"What excitement?" said Maggie, pulling herself up, with a desperate struggle, from her own private adventures.
"What! you don't know ?" Caroline exclaimed in an awed whisper.
"Know what?" Maggie asked, rather crossly, repenting more and more of asking Caroline to carry her note.
"Why, where DO you live?...All about Mr.Warlock and his visions!""I've heard nothing at all," said Maggie.
This was unexpected joy to Caroline, who had never imagined that there would be any one so near the Inner Saints as Maggie who yet knew nothing about these recent events.
"Do you really know nothing about it?"
"Nothing," said Maggie.
"Aren't you wonderful?" said Caroline."What happened was this.
About three weeks ago Mr.Warlock had a vision in the middle of the night.He saw God at about three in the morning.""How did he see God?" asked Maggie, awed in spite of herself.
Caroline's voice dropped to a mysterious whisper."He just woke up and there God was at the end of the bed.Of course he's not spoken to me about it, but apparently there was a blaze of light and Something in the middle.And then a voice spoke and told Mr.Warlock that on the last night of this year everything would be fulfilled.""What did He mean?" asked Maggie.
"Different people think He meant different things," said Caroline.
"Of course there's most fearful excitement about it.Mr.Warlock's had two since.""Two what?" asked Maggie.