CHAPTEK XX.
THE MARRIAGE OF PHILIP AND ADELA.
"You are satisfied now that you two were made for each other, and that you are one soul now?"
"Yes, oh yes; we have no longer a single doubt. Who could have after what we have seen and heard?"
It was Hesperia who asked the final question to Philip and Adela as the three stood in the test chamber—a small chamber made of the purest crystal, through which they could see the sky above and around them, for they were on the top of the most elevated dome.
The silver moon hung above them and poured its white lustre through and through their globe-shaped chamber with a thrilling and strange intensity. The stars and planets appeared magnified, and glowing like search-lights, until they seemed lapped round by white flame.
And amidst that heatless flame their innermost thoughts and souls had been laid bare to each other's scrutiny until not a secret, past, present or to come, remained. Each read his and her own flaws in the
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