General English Level 6 Version 2.1 © 2004 acl Pty Ltd GELEV6 Unit 04 Topic 04.doc Her voice trailed off. Then John remembered what the young woman had asked him to do. "Your daughter asked me to tell you that she loves you." The old woman started to cry, and John stayed a while to comfort her. Walking back to his car John heard a voice call out softly behind him: "Thank you." He turned back to look and saw a bright light hovering above the house. As he looked, the light suddenly shot up into the sky and faded into the distance. Driving home, John felt calm and strangely happy. He knew that somehow he had helped Jane make peace with her mother. Now she could leave this world and continue on her journey into the next. Dictionary deserted to slide hesitantly draped to skid to shiver to lash figure to exclaim Vocabulary unlit without light blinding causing loss of sight, making unable to see crawl very slow speed illuminated lit up bonnet the front of a car a wave of panic sudden feeling of fear shot through went through quickly forced it to fly open made it open very fast soaked to the skin very wet vacant empty gasped sound of surprise, loss of breath faded lost colour 129