4/12 And when he was gone there was only emptiness! And I was not alive and I could not think. I can scarcely think now." "You'll begin to think soon, my lamb," Dowie whispered. "You've got something to think of. After a while the emptiness won't be so big and black." She ventured it very carefully. Her wise soul knew that the Emptiness must come first--the awful world-old Emptiness which for an endless-seeming time nothing can fill-- And all smug preachers of the claims of life and duty must be chary of approaching those who stand desolate gazing into it. |