A vision Neville's wife had, told as evidence that the figures of scripture are personifications and not persons. Five years before this telling, when his daughter was in high school, he would get up early, make breakfast for the two of them and a lunch basket for her, see her off to school and then go back to his library to read his Bible while his wife slept late. That morning she came out to brunch and said she had had the strangest experience. She woke sitting up in bed; he was sitting on the bed; and her hand was engaged with another hand whose face she could not see. He turned, evidently recognised the one holding it, seemed to know him quite intimately, and said to her: why, it is death. She said, I don't want to die. He asked, are you afraid to die? She said, no, I'm not afraid to die, but I have unfinished business. I don't want to die. He said, all right, if you are not afraid to die, all right - and at that moment the two hands disengaged and she came to. He notes that he was not in the room at all; he was in his library reading his Bible. His reading is that death is one of the attributes of mind personified, which is why the poets have always had it as the king of terrors and the jaws of death, and that what released her was the absence of fear rather than the strength of the wish.