“And the very inevitableness of the change is matter for rejoicing, not dread.”
“You may feel so. Other people don’t,” murmured Dulcibel.
“Father, after all it is giving up everything—going from every one,” said Joan.
“No, no, Joan; it is gaining, not losing—going to, not from,” said George.
“But the strangeness,” said Dulcibel.
“The land of light can be no strange country to us, with Jesus our Master there,” George answered.
“If one could feel it all real,” said Dulcibel.
“Father does,” Joan uttered looking up in his face.
Nessie took no part in the discussion.