Neville tells how his friend and publisher Grace, unwell two years earlier, dozed while watching a travelogue on TV and on waking said aloud that she must remember what Neville said — 'I am with you always to the end of the age' — which he identifies as the words of the risen Christ.

Neville reads from a letter a woman friend wrote him about two dreams: in one she met a friend named Jack and told him she thought he had died, and he answered that it was his wife who died; in another she met an old high-school flame and reminisced with him so naturally, though she had not seen him since 1940 and her mother had written her years ago that he had died.

Neville would give Jack money to take three-year-old Vicky to the Central Park zoo; instead Jack took her to a drugstore, bought one chocolate milkshake with two straws, gave her one straw and drank the whole thing himself as a race.

About eight months earlier his publishers Jack and Grace were watching a documentary on television; Grace, unwell and tired, dozed and repeated aloud 'I must remember what Neville said,' and on coming to she recalled the words 'Do not be afraid…I am with you always, to the close of the age' — the last verse of Matthew.

His friend Grace Griffith, in a moment of distress while looking at the TV, closed her eyes struggling to remember what Neville had said, and then from the deep came the words "Do not be disturbed…I am with you to the ends of the age" — scripture she was quoting without knowing it.

Neville reports a letter he received the day before from a friend in the audience, describing how the night before a golf game he assumed he was his opponent and, in that man's body, complimented himself on every stroke — and then played a perfect nine holes.