I could take him with me here or there--give him, doubtless, a little help." "You are a world-man," said his friend, "which is quite different from a worldly man! Come or go as you will, still all is your garden that you cultivate....

Now you are thinking again of Elspeth!" "Perhaps if for a month or two I plague her not, then when I come again she may have a greater knowledge of herself.

Perhaps it is more generous to be absent for a time--" "I see that you will not doubt--that you cannot doubt--that in the end she loves you!" "Is it arrogance, self-love, and ignorance if I think that?
Or is it knowledge?
I think it, and I cannot and will not else!" They came to the wicket, and stood there a moment ere going on by the terrace to the front of the house.

The day was now clear and vivid, soft and bright.

The birds sang in a long ecstasy, the flowers bloomed as though all life must be put into June, the droning bees went about with the steadiest preoccupation.