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It was several moments before Rimarez could collect himself sufficiently to speak. He had meanwhile all the appearance of a man suffering from a paroxysm of fear. His sallow cheeks were blanched and livid, and he swayed unsteadily upon his feet like a drunken man. All the time his eyes never moved from a certain spot across the Square, and they were as the eyes of a man who sees into another world. When he spoke, it was to himself. He seemed unconscious or oblivious of the fact that he was not alone.
"It was a shadow," he muttered. "A dream! But I saw her. Great God, I saw her!"