It's time that she should give all this to some one who will need her when we aren't there, save in our spirits, for whatever people say, I'm sure I shall come back to this wonderful world where one's been so happy and so miserable, where, even now, I seem to see myself stretching out my hands for another present from the great Fairy Tree whose boughs are still hung with enchanting toys, though they are rarer now, perhaps, and between the branches one sees no longer the blue sky, but the stars and the tops of the mountains.
"One doesn't know any more, does one?
One hasn't any advice to give one's children.

One can only hope that they will have the same vision and the same power to believe, without which life would be so meaningless.

That is what I ask for Katharine and her husband.".