“Stupidly is your own interpretation. I will be content to move one man if I might choose the man. I am determined to learn what can be done in a village by one man who stays for the ‘fat of the land,’ the youth. From Drummond’s standpoint, only the boy himself and the young man understand the boy. My outlook just now is from the standpoint of that big-eyed, sensitive-lipped Joe, and your Judith. Men and women are but boys and girls grown tall. I find out the boy; you are helping me to the girl.”
“I am glad I can help,” said Marion, satisfied.
XIV. AN AFTERNOON WITH AN ADVENTURE IN IT.
“Lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.”
—Luke xi. 4.
“Lord, Thou knowest all things: Thou knowest that I love Thee.”
—John xxi. 17.
It was rag-carpet afternoon; it was also another kind of an afternoon, an afternoon with an adventure in it, and Judith longed for adventures; but, of course, all she knew, at first, was the rag-carpet; the adventure was to happen in the kitchen, and the rag-carpet ball was happening in Aunt Affy’s room.