It was in this way that we came to tell Christian legends and to talk of saints and hermits, of old abbeys and minsters, of visions and miracles and the ministry of Angels.  Guy, W. V. thought, might be able, if only he could speak, to tell us much about heaven and the Angels; it was so short a time since he left them.  She herself had quite forgotten, but, then--deprecatingly--it was so long and long and long ago; "eight years, a long time for me."