I was only too glad to be told of the great people and the small ones who were moved and uplifted by his thoughts.
"You admire him very much, I can see," the amiable elderly voice said.
I could not help turning and looking up.

"It is as if a great, great genius were one's friend--as if he talked and one listened," I said.

"He is like a splendid dream which has come true." Old Lord Armour looked at me quite thoughtfully, as if he saw something new in me.
"That is a good way of putting it, Miss Muircarrie," he answered.
"MacNairn would like that.

You must tell him about it yourself." I did not mean to glance through the flowers again, but I did it involuntarily.

And I met the other eyes--the wonderful, interested ones just as I had met them before.