And I should have made him happy.

I could have lessened his faults--stimulated his powers.

That was my dream all these later months--and every week it seemed to grow more reasonable, more possible.

Then you came--' She dropped into a chair beside Lucy, resting her delicate hands on the back of it.

In the mingled abandonment and energy of her attitude, there was the power that belongs to all elemental human emotion, made frankly visible and active.