And I cannot think of a more consistent application of that ideal unless it be in the long statement, just beyond the middle of the book, of my young woman's extraordinary meditative vigil on the occasion that was to become for her such a landmark.

Reduced to its essence, it is but the vigil of searching criticism; but it throws the action further forward that twenty "incidents" might have done.

It was designed to have all the vivacity of incidents and all the economy of picture.

She sits up, by her dying fire, far into the night, under the spell of recognitions on which she finds the last sharpness suddenly wait.

It is a representation simply of her motionlessly SEEING, and an attempt withal to make the mere still lucidity of her act as "interesting" as the surprise of a caravan or the identification of a pirate.