Five years earlier, while his daughter was in high school and he had risen early to make her breakfast and lunch and then gone back to his library to read his Bible, his wife slept late and woke from an experience in which her hand was held by the hand of death, with Neville sitting on the bed recognising death intimately; when she said she was not afraid to die but had unfinished business, the hands disengaged.
Date (happened)
c. December 1958
unresolved
- c. December 1958
- c. 1958
Place
Told
- 8 March 1963
- 15 December 1964
Sources
Source
- The Original Sin ¶11 (Five years ago, when my daughter was in high school, it was my pleasure every morning to get up early and prepare breakfast for the two of us, then make a little lunch basket for her, and then bid her good-bye as she went off to school.)
- The True Story of Christmas ¶16 (One morning my wife said to me when we met for brunch, “I had the strangest experience this morning.” She said, “I awoke and I sat up in bed, and then you came into the room and you sat on the bed. And then as you sat on the bed, a hand came out of nowhe…)