'Time was when I could write it all between one lamp-lighting and the next.

I will teach thee the art--after due preparation; and I will show thee the meaning of the Wheel.' 'We take the Road, then ?' 'The Road and our Search.

I was but waiting for thee.

It was made plain to me in a hundred dreams--notably one that came upon the night of the day that the Gates of Learning first shut that without thee I should never find my River.

Again and again, as thou knowest, I put this from me, fearing an illusion.