the angel of unknowing that always guarded blaise as he lumbered his way through life pulled back her opalescent wings and let him see something brightly and clearly , and because he saw carmelita with his heart she was more beautiful than all the stained glass that had guarded his existence up til then and he wanted her , and the angel let him see straight ahead farther than usual toward a mark on the horizon that might be his future if he could win it .