Jean visioned Margaret going "into the silence," for evidently she belonged, and wondered which of the wobbly columns she was.
"Is everybody in it?"
"Everybody. It was a regular epidemic. If I had stayed up there another week, First Principle would have got me sure."
Suddenly Gregory realized that they were talking about Puck and Margaret and his life in that other world. He wondered how it had begun, but before he could think back, Jean was asking:
"I suppose that means an end of economics and uplift generally? I imagine Divine Mind isn't a thing one shares with garbage or child labor."
"Hardly. 'Full realization' is a terribly absorbing state."
It was strange to be talking like this to Jean. But it was a relief. He had always felt that Jean understood, but it was nice not to have to think ahead always, to loosen the curb once in a while.
"Better than Montessori or garbage anyhow."
"Heaps."
They spoke no more of Puck or Margaret but both felt that something, somewhere, had changed. What had seemed perfect before was a little more perfect now.