Those who lived before us accomplished their work, and have passed onwards--a part of the world scheme--to, we doubt not, fuller and worthier work beyond.

We, still in the preparatory class of God's great school, cannot yet grasp the higher forms, but those who have been moved up surely smile at our want of comprehension, and look back on this earth as the College undergraduate remembers his kindergarten; for the spiritual evolution goes ever on, working always Godwards, and when the human dross falls away, the imperfect and the partial will be merged into the perfect and the eternal.

The broken eggshells may lie in the old nest, but the fledged larks are singing in the blue of the sky.
From the little town of Wickborough they drove along the old Roman road towards Danestone.

Part of their way lay across Wickland Heath, and here, as it was now past mid-day, Miss Beach suggested that they should stop and take their lunch.

It was a most glorious spot for a picnic.
They were at the top of a tableland, and before them spread the Common, a brown sea of last year's heather and bilberry, with gorse bushes flaming here and there like golden fires.