Gabriel dreamed that he was lying on a great stone slab. The slab was floating in a vast, turbulent sea.

It was not sinking, yet his thoughts were sinking into sadness. So he stepped off the stone and plunged deeper and deeper into the icy depths. He had always loved water. Here he was suspended, free, the cold barely touching. It seemed as if he swam down and across many miles and he was with nature. And the words of John came back to him: ‘We have passed out of death into life.’