"
"Ah, how true that is!" cried Garth. "And how difficult to make
people understand the loneliness of it, and how they seem suddenly
to arrive close to one from another world; stooping from some
distant planet, with sympathetic voice and friendly touch; and then
away they go to another sphere, leaving one to the immensity of
solitude in Sightless Land."
"Yes," agreed Nurse Rosemary, "and you almost dread the coming,
because the going makes the darkness darker, and the loneliness more
lonely."
"Ah, so YOU experienced that?" said Garth. "Do you know, now you
have week-ended in Sightless Land, I shall not feel it such a place
of solitude. At every turn I shall be able to say:--'A dear and
faithful friend has been here.'"
He laughed a laugh of such almost boyish pleasure, that all the
mother in Jane's love rose up and demanded of her one supreme
effort. She looked at the slight figure in white flannels, leaning
against the window frame, so manly, so beautiful still, and yet so
helpless and so needing the wealth of tenderness which was hers to
give.
Pages:
404
405
406
407
408
409
410
411
412
413
414
415
416
417
418
419
420
421
422
423
424
425
426
427
428