But Christ had walked on, preaching to those men and women who had
been drowned in the Flood, and they had gone up to heaven with him.
"But, Veronica, those who are in hell never come out of it."
"No, they never come out of it; only Christ can do all things, and He
descended into hell, not to watch the tortures of the damned--you
couldn't think that, Sister Teresa?--but to save those who had died
before His coming. Once we had a meditation on a subject given to us
by Mother Hilda from one of the Gospels: Three men were seen coming
from a tomb, two supporting a man standing between them, the shadow
of the Cross came from behind; and the heads of two men touched the
sky, but the head of the man they supported passed through the sky,
and far beyond it, for the third man was our Lord coming out of
hell."
"But, Veronica, you were telling me about the counterparts."
"Well, Sister Teresa, the counterparts are those whom Christ redeemed
in those three days, and they come and visit every convent."
"In what guise do they come?" Evelyn asked. And she heard that the
arrival of the counterpart was always unexpected, but was preceded by
an especially happy state of quiet exaltation.
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