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`` Heaven only . And now , Vrouw Botmar , go and rest awhile , hoping for the best , for you will hear him if he wakes up , but he will not wake , since the sleep-draught that I gave him holds him fast . '' Then she saw us both go -- the doctor back to his bed and me to a settle with mattress on it , which was placed just outside his door . Here I would stop my tale to say that _ this thing happened _ , and that those words which Suzanne heard while her body lay in Sigwe 's guest-hut , passed between the doctor , who was sleeping at the stead , and myself at one o'clock of the morning on the third night after the night of the taking of Suzanne , and moreover , that I never spoke of them to any living creature until Suzanne repeated them to me in later years . Nor could the doctor have told them to her , for he went away to the province of Graff Reinet , where shortly afterwards he was killed by a fall from his horse . Then it seemed to Suzanne that she moved to the bedside of her husband , and bending down , kissed him upon the forehead , which was hot to her lips , saying , `` Awake , dear love . '' Instantly , in her vision , he awoke with a cry of joy , and said , `` Suzanne , how came you here ? ''