“And the beginning is the noblest part, because the least appreciated. The ball in motion will have many following it, but the starting must be done by one or two.”
Their conversation was here interrupted by the announcement of a visitor, who proved to be Miss Weston, whom Dawn was delighted to see.
“I had a singular feeling,” she said, to Dawn “as I came up the steps of the portico, what do you suppose it was?”
“I am not clairvoyant to-day. Be kind enough to tell me.”
“I felt as though I was coming to a home, one which I should never wish to leave.”
“And you need not, so long as you can be happy with me. I have long needed some one like yourself to help me. Will you stay?”
“Dawn, may I?”
“Nothing would give me more happiness, because you have come in this way; of your own spontaniety-simply gravitated to my life-and when the exhaustion of our mental and vital forces demands our separation we will part, and consider that as natural and agreeable to each as our present coming together.”
“O, if these principles could be understood and lived out, how happy, how natural we all should be; and happy because natural.”
“The world is slowly coming to an understanding of them, and you and I may help its advance by living what we feel to be true lives.”