A Romance of Two Worlds guide

Summary

Characters

• AmyAlso EverardHelperFrom Chapter 1
• EverardHelperFrom Chapter 1
• RaffaelloAlso CelliniHelperFrom Chapter 1
• ChristHelperFrom Chapter 2
• AzulHelperFrom Chapter 3
• PaulOtherFrom Chapter 3
• CasimirAlso HeliobasHelperFrom Chapter 5
• Madame DeniseHelperFrom Chapter 6
• ChallonerHelperFrom Chapter 7
• ZaraHelperFrom Chapter 7
• IvanAlso PetroffskySuitorFrom Chapter 7
• Suzanne MichotOtherFrom Chapter 8
• AeonHelperFrom Chapter 11
• Dr. MoriniOtherFrom Chapter 15
• The little Greek pageHelperFrom Chapter 16
• B. W. L.OtherFrom Chapter 17
• L. E. F.OtherFrom Chapter 17

Chapter by chapter

Storylines

• The narrator seeks recovery from nervous illness and restoration of her ability to work; treatment and travel offer limited relief, while Cellini's presence repeatedly brings respite.

  • The narrator experiences profound rest in Cellini's presence, recovers clarity after a dazed interval, and later falls into tranquil sleep; lasting recovery and restored ability to work remain unestablished.
  • After prolonged sleep and dreams, the narrator feels rested and tranquil, shows a striking physical improvement confirmed by others and her mirror, and feels able to attend a dance. Restoration of her ability to work is not yet established.
  • Her appearance, spirits and enjoyment improve markedly, and she sleeps uninterruptedly, although restoration of her ability to work is not established.
  • Renewed illness and Cellini's account lead her to pursue treatment from Heliobas in Paris, though recovery remains unachieved.
  • The narrator obtains Heliobas's commitment to treatment, regains courage, and experiences immediate physical buoyancy followed by deep sleep after taking his preparations; sustained recovery is not yet established.
  • The narrator wakes free of customary pain, feels vigorous and merry, and regains her desire to play the piano.
  • The narrator reports full restoration of health and strength and resumes sustained musical practice.

• Persistent illness and recurring nervous attacks undermine the narrator's efforts to recover and sustain hope.

  • Disturbed perception, involuntary speech, a lapse of recall, returning weariness and inability to concentrate continue to trouble her. Their cause is not established.
  • The visionary sequence includes dizziness, terror and oppressive restraint, which she struggles through before waking; afterward her previous illness appears markedly relieved, though lasting recovery is unconfirmed.
  • Cellini warns that relief is temporary and relapse is expected within forty-eight hours; her apprehension returns, and he refuses another dose without further guidance.
  • Weakness, apathy and sustained nocturnal nervous agitation recur.
  • Nervous dread nearly makes her abandon the consultation, and her account establishes that illness has interrupted her professional music and practice.
  • Pain, disturbed sleep, anxiety and depression give way to sustained health and vitality; she explicitly feels fully restored.

• On Dr. R's advice, the narrator travels from London to the Riviera with Everard and Amy, who agree to share expenses; they arrive in Cannes.

• Raffaello forms a warm friendship with Everard and Amy, although Amy finds his mystical conversation disturbing.

  • Amy remains engaged with Cellini's social intentions but becomes more explicitly hostile to the spiritual ideas in his borrowed book and intends to question him about his supposed engagement.

• The narrator develops a soothing connection with Raffaello through studio visits, his presence and their steady gaze.

  • Cellini intervenes to prevent her drinking the dangerous liquid, receives her forgiveness, promises further disclosure and lends her a book. Their connection deepens through conversation and the rest she feels near him, which diminishes after she leaves.
  • Cellini extends his attention through a note about her evening flowers. The narrator becomes convinced of his personal calming influence and seeks an explanation directly from him.
  • His gifts, their waltz and his care deepen their connection despite moments of displeasure and anger; her knowledge of Heliobas elicits new respect and reverence from him.
  • His sympathetic interest and personal disclosures deepen her trust until she regards him as one of her truest friends.

• Raffaello proposes painting the narrator's portrait; she agrees to return the next day, and Amy agrees to noon sittings and to arrange excursions around them.

  • The narrator attends the promised sitting without Amy, who goes driving, and Cellini requests another sitting at the same time the next day.
  • She discovers that the portrait's head is already almost complete.
  • The newspaper reveals that Cellini has used the narrator's portrait sketch in his completed and acclaimed painting, which Prince N has purchased.

• The narrator and Leo establish a friendly acquaintance; she learns that he and Cellini share a master.

  • The narrator is pleased to encounter Leo again and receives her handkerchief from him during Heliobas's demonstration.

• Cellini possesses a dangerous elixir whose nature and safe use remain only partly disclosed to the narrator.

  • The narrator now suspects an undisclosed drug experiment behind her experiences and recovery, increasing the personal stakes of Cellini's partly concealed knowledge without establishing what he used.
  • Cellini supplies further claims about the elixir's source and effects, but its precise nature and safe use remain undisclosed.
  • The narrator receives further oral and bath preparations, later said to increase internal electricity; their connection to Cellini's dangerous elixir remains unestablished.

• The narrator seeks fuller knowledge of Cellini's mysterious elixir after learning that it strengthens accustomed users but kills the unprepared.

  • Her search for an explanation becomes an explicit resolve to question Cellini, prompted by her belief that he administered a drug; the substance and its connection to the elixir remain unconfirmed.
  • She receives an account linking the elixir to Heliobas and her unusual experiences, accepting electrical healing while questioning the spiritual explanation.

• Cellini promises to explain the elixir more fully on a later occasion.

  • Cellini fulfils his promise to explain further by recounting his treatment and describing the elixir's alleged role in her experiences.

• The significance of HELIOBAS and the source of the narrator's visionary experiences remain unexplained; the name recurs under compulsion, and an instinct prevents her from recording it.

  • She suspects that Cellini's healing friend is Heliobas and names him aloud. Cellini's startled, reverent response strengthens the connection, but he withholds further answers until tomorrow.
  • Heliobas is identified as Cellini's healer and master, and Cellini offers an explanation for the dreams and transmitted name; the narrator does not accept the entire explanation.
  • She recognizes Heliobas as the man from her third dream and tells him that Cellini's remedy induced that dream. Further visionary recognition and his explanation of an electrical soul connection add information, but fuller explanations are deferred.

• The narrator commits to attending Madame Didier's evening dance; Cellini asks her to choose no flowers, which Amy interprets as his intention to supply them.

  • The narrator attends and enjoys the dance, wearing the floral adornments Cellini supplied.

• The narrator withholds a full account of the portrait sitting from Amy.

• Amy objects to the spiritual ideas associated with Cellini and believes the narrator accepts spirits; their disagreement produces anger but ends in affectionate reconciliation.

• Amy intends to question Cellini about his supposed fiancée, after the narrator asserts a betrothal she privately recognizes she has no authority to claim.

  • Amy raises the engagement claim with Cellini, who confirms it and says his betrothed is outside the country, relieving the narrator's fear that she had spoken falsely.

• The narrator promises to return Cellini's book and convey Amy's objection and proposed Bible study.

  • She brings the borrowed book back; these events do not establish that she conveys Amy's objection and proposed Bible study.

• The narrator resolves to question Cellini face to face about his calming influence and her strange experiences, believing he has experimented on her with a drug.

  • The private conversation establishes that Cellini secretly gave her a plant medicine and provides his account of her illness and temporary relief. The larger explanation of his influence and her strange experiences remains deferred.
  • The intended face-to-face inquiry occurs, producing Cellini's account and her selective assessment of it.

• The narrator is puzzled and half angry that Cellini administered a remedy without her informed consent, despite its beneficial effects.

• The narrator seeks another dose of Cellini's remedy to prevent the predicted return of her illness.

• Cellini will consult the friend who cured him about the narrator's constitution before administering further remedies.

  • Leo carries an introduction and explanations to Heliobas, who is already expecting the narrator; the arrangement now directs her toward a personal consultation.
  • Heliobas has received Cellini's written account, hears the narrator's symptoms directly, and prescribes treatment himself.

• The narrator and Cellini agree to meet at noon the next day, when he promises fuller disclosure.

  • The studio meeting takes place and Cellini provides the promised fuller disclosure.

• In his account of his past, Cellini seeks the old masters' secret of colour and the ability to paint his dream visions; Heliobas's instruction eventually brings artistic success.

• In Cellini's retrospective account, bereavement, obsessive artistic effort and nervous illness drive him to fear madness and attempt suicide; Heliobas intervenes and restores his health.

• Cellini recounts how Heliobas became his rescuer, healer, teacher and revered friend.

• Cellini claims to have learned extraordinary truths while bodily unconscious, but Heliobas requires him to keep those experiences secret and defers fuller answers.

  • Heliobas describes temporarily setting Cellini free for a satisfying voyage of discovery, adding corroborating testimony without disclosing the experiences themselves.
  • Cellini's experience is identified as a voyage of discovery, and the narrator is offered an analogous experiment involving temporary separation of spirit and body; his particular experiences remain undisclosed.
  • Heliobas discloses that Cellini reached Venus during his spiritual journey, adding a specific destination to the previously guarded account.

• Cellini describes an unnamed beautiful being who loves and guides him, and interprets the narrator's unwitting words as a message from this beloved.

  • The doctrine of companion souls supplies a possible framework for Cellini's beloved guide, without explicitly identifying that being.
  • Cellini's beloved is further identified as a spirit encountered on Venus who shares and governs his destiny.

• The narrator commits to seeking Heliobas's treatment in Paris, obtains recommended accommodation, and leaves Cannes the following morning.

  • The narrator reaches Paris, secures the recommended lodging, consults Heliobas, and receives his prescribed medicines.

• Everard and Amy agree to remain in Cannes until the narrator returns from her consultation in Paris.

  • Amy and Everard replace waiting in Cannes for the narrator's return with a plan to join her in Paris.

• The narrator tells Everard and Amy that she will consult a celebrated physician in Paris without identifying Heliobas or disclosing the extraordinary basis of the proposed treatment.

• The narrator develops complete trust in Heliobas after recognizing him from her dream and experiencing a vision of a familiar, beloved face through his; she authorizes him to decide for her.

  • Gratitude and belief in Heliobas's powers deepen her attachment, though the demonstration introduces apprehension about his control; she nevertheless commits to obeying him.
  • Recovery and the musical experience reinforce her explicit trust in Heliobas and lead her to commit to his greater experiment.
  • Confirmation of her dream strengthens recognition, and she expresses trust through a commitment to repay Heliobas, a promise to help him and willingness to drink the preparation despite fear.
  • The narrator entrusts Heliobas with her complete account, comforts him in his vulnerability and promises enduring spiritual support.
  • The narrator witnesses Heliobas lose restraint and helps restore it; their connection continues through correspondence and extensive instruction.
  • Gratitude and sympathy accompany renewed mutual confidence; Casimir's guidance continues beyond their parting and later meetings.

• Heliobas undertakes to cure the narrator on condition that she follows his rules exactly; she accepts his authority, takes his prescribed bath and oral preparation, and agrees to return tomorrow at five.

  • The narrator returns to Heliobas, agrees to stay under his direction, and takes her prescribed evening dose.
  • The narrator follows the continuing treatment and reports the promised restoration of health.

• The narrator affirms her commitment to originality despite its social consequences, defending aspirations beyond ordinary feminine ambitions.

  • The narrator acknowledges continuing worldly ambitions and reaffirms participation in the experiment partly to vindicate women's courage.

• Heliobas claims a preexisting connection between their souls that obliges mutual service; the narrator experiences apparent recognition, but its origin and the full explanation remain undisclosed until her recovery.

  • Heliobas discloses a general doctrine of companion souls, but its application to the narrator and the origin of their apparent recognition remain unexplained.
  • Heliobas confirms the passage remembered from her dream, and the narrator undertakes reciprocal service, although the origin of their connection remains unexplained.
  • Casimir discloses that he mystically learned of the narrator's suitability as Zara's companion and his possible guide, and that her presence fulfilled a hidden purpose.

• Amy asks the narrator to visit her friends in Paris and supplies letters of introduction.

  • The narrator acts on Amy's introductions by visiting the Challoners and accepting their hospitality.
  • The narrator visits the Grand Hotel and meets the Challoner family among the gathering.

• Amy plans to enter Cellini's studio on a pretext and report what she discovers.

• Challoner undertakes to organize a paying Paris recital for the narrator despite her protests and her stated medical purpose for visiting Paris.

  • Challoner requests an improvisation at the Grand Hotel in two weeks, and Heliobas assures the narrator she will be able to perform; her acceptance is not recorded.

• Zara and the narrator form an affectionate, sisterly friendship that deepens during their visit.

  • Shared residence deepens their loving confidence; the narrator confides her experience, and Zara's promised bequest elicits an affectionate wish for her continued life.
  • The narrator becomes certain of Zara's goodness. A brief disturbance caused by Zara's coldness gives way to mutual declarations of affection, and Zara acknowledges her as one of her circle.
  • The narrator promises enduring love, grieves Zara's death and comes to believe their bond survives bodily separation.

• Ivan hopes to enter Heliobas's electric circle, believing this could bring greater sympathy with Zara, who dislikes him; he asks the narrator to intercede with her.

  • The narrator abandons discussion of Ivan with Zara, and his coercion deepens Zara's estrangement. After his collapse and revival, he commits to Heliobas's instruction and receives Zara's forgiveness; neither admission to the electric circle nor reciprocal love is established.

• The narrator's conviction that Heliobas can transmit commands by thought produces nervousness about his possible control over people.

  • Heliobas predicts a greater influence over the narrator and directs her musical experience, but she responds by affirming trust in his powers; the extent of spiritual control remains unresolved.
  • Heliobas's revival of Ivan renews the narrator's fear and wonder at his power, although his reassurance and an electrical explanation temper her alarm.

• Zara claims to be thirty-eight despite appearing seventeen to twenty to the narrator, who disbelieves her; the discrepancy remains unexplained.

• The narrator agrees to come and stay with Heliobas and Zara the following afternoon, with Zara assigned to arrange her stay.

  • The narrator takes up residence with Heliobas and Zara and receives her furnished room.

• Suzanne's alleged account of Zara's luminous trance, collapse and an unseen force introduces unexplained household phenomena; the narrator dismisses the account as intoxication, while later disclosures connect Zara with an experiment and a companion spirit without explicitly settling the report.

  • Zara's demonstrated ability to incapacitate Ivan and her account of cultivated human electrical organs provide further context for the household phenomena, without explicitly settling Suzanne's earlier report.
  • The narrator directly encounters an unseen force near Zara, providing another household phenomenon without settling Suzanne's earlier account.

• Zara intends to resume her studio work in complete solitude, and the narrator promises not to enter until called.

  • Zara renews her intention to finish her studio work in solitude; she enters the studio with Leo while the narrator retires to her own apartment.
  • Zara reports that she has completed her studio task.

• With her health restored and instruments available, the narrator resumes sustained practice on the piano and organ.

  • Her resumed musical activity extends to a successful improvisation before her friends, with vigour and ease she recognizes as surpassing her former ability.

• The narrator seeks spiritual instruction, knowledge of her life's purpose and direct experience of the unseen world.

  • The narrator gains an account of cultivated human electrical powers, asks to develop her own, and extends her speculation to communication with other worlds and her place in a cosmic order.
  • Her search progresses from prayer and stated religious questions to conscious experience beyond her body, spiritual instruction and a vision that renders a previously impenetrable mystery comprehensible.
  • The narrator receives direct spiritual instruction about divine love, creation, souls and her future conduct, and experiences an encounter with Christ.
  • The narrator receives further spiritual instruction and cosmological explanations while recognizing questions her journey left unexplored.
  • The narrator finds new religious meaning in worship, experiences what she identifies as Aeon's appearance, and studies Heliobas's religious explanations in light of her claimed firsthand knowledge.
  • Further guidance addresses spiritual progress and future soul union, and continuing instruction substantially increases her knowledge.
  • Continued instruction develops the narrator's discernment of character and future consequences; Casimir also supplies a specific prediction concerning Gordon.

• The narrator aspires to spiritual understanding while retaining desires for worldly fame, wealth and artistic ownership.

• The narrator's religious doubts and fear of invisible presences contend with her desire to believe and experience the unseen; the musical demonstration strengthens belief, although anxiety about the greater experiment persists.

  • Ivan's demon-lover allegation intensifies the narrator's fear of evil possession during the planned trance. Prayer restores her courage, and subsequent observation convinces her of Zara's goodness, though the greater experiment has not occurred.
  • Fear briefly returns before drinking, but she proceeds and experiences spiritual awareness, certainty of her enduring essence, consolation and new understanding.
  • The vision leads her to profess belief in Christ with overwhelming joy; her subsequent encounter confirms the faith that had previously contended with doubt and fear.

• Heliobas explains companion souls and discloses Zara's allegiance to a greater spirit, but the narrator does not understand the doctrine's personal application or the greater influence he predicts for her.

  • Zara's otherworldly attachment becomes the subject of Ivan's accusation and unexplained claim of direct knowledge. The narrator articulates her own conjecture and receives electrical instruction, but the companion's identity and the doctrine's personal application remain undisclosed.
  • Heliobas refers to the narrator's other half, and Azul's guidance gives her direct experience of spiritual companionship and instruction, without explicitly settling the doctrine's full personal application.
  • Azul makes the doctrine personally relevant by describing the narrator's eventual reunion with her Twin Soul, although that soul's identity remains undisclosed.
  • Zara's spiritual reach is further disclosed, Heliobas warns about incompatible love, and the narrator interprets the obstruction near Zara through spiritual sympathy.
  • Ivan's vision describes a figure claiming Zara eternally; Heliobas identifies her statue as an attempted representation of her Twin-Soul and gives further guidance about the narrator's future union.

• Heliobas and the narrator agree to attempt an experiment after another week to demonstrate future existence through a temporary separation of spirit and body; she must prepare through study and prayer, consult Zara and refrain from discussing it with Heliobas.

  • The narrator confronts a specific fear about the proposed separation of spirit and body, prays for protection and seeks Zara's confidence and explanation as part of her preparation.
  • The preparation period ends, the narrator completes the prescribed prayer and undergoes the trance, experiencing separation from her body and a guided journey; her return is not yet recorded.
  • The experiment culminates in a journey through spiritual regions and her return to conscious embodied life before Heliobas.

• Zara promises to leave her jewel to the narrator at death; the narrator wishes never to receive it because she wants Zara to live.

  • Zara dies and Heliobas removes her extinguished electric stone, but its promised transfer to the narrator has not occurred.
  • The narrator receives Zara's jewel after her death and resolves always to wear it.

• Ivan's jealousy and determination to possess Zara lead him to obstruct her departure and forcibly embrace her; her defensive power incapacitates him, and afterward he seeks her pardon, which she grants.

  • Ivan's possessive understanding of Zara is exposed; he confronts her death, renounces vengeance and reconciles with her brother, ending the immediate struggle over possessing her.

• Ivan asks the narrator to conceal his purpose and occupy Casimir while he immediately confronts Zara and investigates her supposed lover.

• After Casimir revives him, Ivan relinquishes his hostility, receives forgiveness and commits himself to Casimir's guidance as a docile pupil.

  • Their earlier reconciliation breaks down into a deadly confrontation, but they reconcile again and Ivan commits to seeking Heliobas's help in future suffering.

• Ivan claims to have seen Zara's lover and reached an understanding, but what he saw and understood remains undisclosed.

  • Ivan discloses the apparent supernatural figure's claim to Zara and warning against pursuing her, while explaining that he dismissed the experience as hallucination.

• The narrator wants Heliobas to develop her own electrical powers after forming an explanation of his and Zara's abilities.

  • Heliobas supplies practical instructions and a recipe for developing the narrator's electrical powers.
  • She tests her electric force by invoking Aeon and reads the practical instructions for preserving health and cultivating that force.
  • Casimir commits to further physical and spiritual guidance, explains the electrical correspondence tools and continues developing her powers of discernment.

• Amy and Everard plan to join the narrator in Paris at the end of the following week, stay at the Grand Hotel and renew Amy's wardrobe; Amy asks Challoner to secure rooms.

  • Amy and Everard reach the Grand Hotel and reunite with the narrator; the wardrobe plans are not settled by these events.

• The narrator promises to investigate Heliobas's spiritual danger during her journey if she retains recollection of Earth.

  • The narrator remembers her promise, pursues the inquiry despite Azul's rebuke and obtains a warning to convey to Heliobas; its delivery remains pending.
  • The narrator remembers the request, obtains Azul's authorized message and delivers it; Heliobas commits to remembering the injunction.

• Heliobas foresees a spiritual danger to himself but cannot identify its nature.

  • The inquiry yields a warning connecting Heliobas's danger with a future occasion when death will lie in his power, without identifying the precise circumstances.
  • Azul's warning identifies a prospective danger involving Heliobas's power over death, though its concrete circumstances remain unknown.
  • The narrator suspects Heliobas may fail to heed Azul, learns he feels forgotten by her, receives Zara's warning and hears clashing steel; the precise danger remains unidentified.
  • The spiritual danger becomes concrete when Heliobas nearly kills Ivan through loss of restraint; the narrator's reminder stops him, and he acknowledges his failure and seeks pardon.

• The narrator considers persuading others of spiritual truths once she attains certainty; Heliobas warns that others will reject her account and permits full disclosure to her other half.

  • Her tentative consideration of persuading others becomes an expressed desire to return to Earth and teach.
  • Heliobas authorizes sharing the Christian theory and gives the narrator its written exposition, while renewing his warning about disbelief.
  • Although Zara restrains her immediate disclosure of supernatural musical inspiration, the narrator commits to sharing Heliobas's religious manuscript with her readers.
  • The appended reader testimony reports strengthened faith, changed religious understanding and consolation through the published account; these are readers' reported responses.

• Azul becomes the narrator's spiritual companion, guide and instructor during her journey through other worlds.

  • Azul continues her instruction, accompanies her descent and supplies the warning she seeks for Heliobas.

• Azul's claim that unbelieving Earth faces extinction conflicts with the narrator's understanding of Christ's redemptive sacrifice.

  • By experiencing a creator's compassion and willingness to become mortal to save her creatures, the narrator accepts the angel's explanation of Christ's sacrifice and divine love.

• The narrator recognizes her lifelong guardian angel, accepts his guidance and asks him never to desert her.

• The narrator professes faith in and love for Christ, then receives his personal affirmation and promise of immortal life through him.

• Aeon promises the narrator musical instruction, comfort and appearances on Earth while she continues to love him.

  • The narrator experiences Aeon's apparent appearance after invoking him and inwardly hears music after petitioning him, giving her experiential confirmation of his promised companionship and musical help.

• The narrator commits to seeking God's World through lifelong love and to returning to Earth to make amends, teach others and do penance.

  • The narrator puts her commitment to helping others into practice by soothing Amy's nervous hysteria.

• Heliobas provides private writings and a fluid recipe for the narrator's continued electrical cultivation, warning her of the danger of another spiritual uplift.

  • The narrator reads Heliobas's private instructions and discovers their practical simplicity; their continued application remains ahead.
  • Heliobas adds restrictions and guidance for continued cultivation; the narrator packs his scrolls and recipes and continues learning from him.
  • Ongoing cultivation receives further guidance and practical correspondence tools, followed by reported growth in discernment.

• The narrator promises to keep Heliobas's private instructions locked away and disclose none of them.

  • After reading the private instructions, she expressly renews her promise never to make them public.
  • The narrator places the documents together under lock and key, carrying out the safekeeping required by her promise.
  • Heliobas reiterates secrecy, and the narrator retains his private instructional materials for her departure.

• Heliobas fears permanent separation from Zara; the narrator becomes afraid for them and offers encouragement that renews his courage.

  • Zara's sudden electrical death makes Heliobas's feared separation immediate, and he withdraws to grieve alone.
  • Bereavement is compounded by Heliobas's fear of spiritual estrangement after his assault; he seeks Zara's and Azul's pardon, apparently perceives Azul, and discovers Zara's parting dedication.
  • Zara's death leaves Casimir solitary; he plans travel as a way to adapt to her absence, without settling the question of permanent spiritual separation.

• The narrator promises to pray unceasingly for Heliobas during her life and after death.

• An unseen obstruction prevents the narrator from approaching the sleeping Zara; she attributes it to Zara's spiritual life and sympathy, but its source remains unexplained.

• Casimir and Zara arrange a dinner at their house for the following evening; the Everards and Challoners accept, and Casimir undertakes to invite Ivan.

  • The dinner takes place successfully until Zara's collapse ends the gathering; Ivan declines dinner and expresses hope of visiting later.

• The narrator conceals the human electric force behind her cure and, following Zara's warning, withholds her communion with Aeon as the source of her improvisation.

  • Everard learns that Heliobas bases his treatment on electricity, partially disclosing the basis of the cure without revealing its full human or spiritual mechanism.

• Zara forms a warmly received acquaintance with the narrator's friends, winning Amy's confidence and overcoming Effie Challoner's competitive resistance.

  • Zara charms the guests through her hospitality, and their distress at her collapse demonstrates their attachment.

• Anticipating separation from Zara and Casimir, the narrator seeks to maximize her remaining time with them and obtain explanations from Casimir's manuscripts.

  • Zara proposes spending their remaining time together on a drive, and they enjoy it despite the narrator's sadness about parting and foreboding at Zara's identification of death as her closest friend.
  • Zara's death ends the narrator's opportunity for further living companionship with her, while Heliobas withdraws into private grief.
  • Departure becomes definite and the narrator packs, but Heliobas supplies a further book and maintains instruction beyond their separation.

• The narrator resolves to reproduce Heliobas's religious manuscript in full for her readers.

  • The narrator presents the religious manuscript's account of creation, Christ and spiritual electricity, ending with Heliobas's signature and seal.

• The narrator promises to have Zara's unfinished statue destroyed after Zara's departure and before leaving the house.

  • The narrator conveys Zara's charge and witnesses Heliobas and the servants completely destroy the unfinished clay figure.

• The narrator resolves to warn and protect Heliobas, then immediately seeks him after Zara's apparition declares that she can rescue him.

  • The narrator intervenes despite resistance and invokes Azul at the critical moment, stopping Heliobas's lethal attack and protecting him from completing it.

• Heliobas seeks additional medical help for Zara, and John Challoner undertakes to fetch Dr. Morini.

• The narrator seeks to have Heliobas restore Zara to life.

  • Zara's death is physically confirmed and funeral preparations proceed; the narrator comes to rejoice in Zara's happiness rather than obtaining her bodily restoration.

• The narrator undertakes to prepare Zara's body and console her bereaved brother.

  • The narrator supports the bereaved Heliobas through his crisis, carries out Zara's instruction concerning the statue and fulfills a further duty toward Zara's remains.
  • After the funeral, the narrator's sympathy for Casimir and promise of full confidence continue her effort to support him in bereavement.

• Ivan blames Heliobas for Zara's death and seeks revenge through armed and unarmed combat; the narrator prevents Heliobas from killing him, then secures Ivan's renunciation of vengeance and their reconciliation.

• Ivan intends to leave Paris that night.

  • Ivan leaves Paris.

• Heliobas vows to remain alive until he delivers Ivan from foretold suffering, and Ivan commits to returning when that suffering begins.

• The narrator promises to place Ivan's chosen flowers on Zara's remains and subsequently fulfills that promise.

• Servants who regard Heliobas as diabolical intend to resign; he dismisses them, while the page and Armenian servants affirm their loyalty and receive permission to remain.

• Heliobas promises the dismissed servants wages and an additional present after Zara's funeral, and suitable references on application.

• Heliobas publicly exposes Jeanne Claudet's abandonment of her child and asserts that the child survived, revealing his knowledge to Jeanne, the narrator and the servants.

• Amy urgently seeks the narrator's company after Zara's sudden death leaves her nervous and hysterical; Heliobas gives the narrator guidance on healing her.

  • The narrator joins Amy, and her presence soothes Amy's nervous hysteria.

• The narrator prepares to leave after Zara's funeral and agrees to maintain correspondence with Heliobas, whose guidance continues beyond her stay.

  • The narrator departs after the funeral and leaves Paris for England; correspondence tools, subsequent news, a gift and renewed meetings establish continued contact and guidance.

• Casimir plans to leave Paris for Egypt and adapt to life without Zara through travel.

• Casimir promises further meetings with the narrator, predicts their next reunion in Italy and undertakes to write about his movements.

• Amy longs for a child, as the narrator infers from her letters despite her newly acquired wealth.

• Ivan marries the daughter of a French duke while continuing to commemorate Zara with flowers at her grave.

• The author consistently refuses interviews to avoid presenting herself as an exponent of the book's doctrine.

• Readers seek the author's personal assurance, explanations and further guidance toward religious conviction.

• L. E. F.'s loss of religious confidence leads to a secret suicidal intention, which reading the book reverses.

• The author establishes continuing correspondence with L. E. F., whose mental gloom subsequently disappears.

• T. M. hopes to pass the consolation and hope received from the book to those he instructs.

Places

London, Riviera, Cannes, Hotel de L----, The hotel, Paris, Rome, Earth, England, South Kensington Museum, Hotel Costanza, Campagna, Avenue du Midi, Grand Hotel, American States, Italy, Bois de Boulogne, Jupiter, Saturn, Naples, Venus, The Great Circle, The Central Sphere, The Bois, Egypt, Cascine Woods, Khartoum