"But Sweet Rocket goes with me!"
"Just. As all the East and you flow here."
"What kind of a general world are we coming into, Linden? What kind of a political, social, economic world? I believe that, as to much of it, Robert and Frances are far seeing. In the large, those changes are upon us, and in the large they are for the better. They are built into the road we are going. I agree, I welcome! But I would see more completely if I could."
Linden, in the cane chair by the study window, seemed to pay attention to the storm. At last he spoke. "I cannot see in detail. I think there will be a great simplification. Power out of a thousand tortuous channels mingling, running broad and deep! There are signs on every side. The old banks crumble. The great sea lifts other continents."
"I see everywhere how we are seeking."
"Yes. The seeker finds, the finder seeks on, seeks farther. The great ages are ever the seekers."
"You would say it is a great age?"
"Yes. A very great one. Who is not in some way aware of it? This friction of opinion on the top is but the wildness of the outermost leaves as the strong wind blows."
"And wherever I go I shall find the seeking and the greatness?"
"The world is One," said Linden.