“Then you don’t blame us?” he said.
“No, of course not. I shouldn’t have had the courage, perhaps, but you of the younger generation are right. Meet life as it offers itself: it’s a bigger thing than avoiding it.”
“Thank you; that does a lot of good,” he said, drawing a long breath.
* * * * *
He is of another generation, as is Molly, too,—God bless her. And what I said to him I believe. May it be a generation more significant and responsive than my own! I think it will, for it has been blessed with two things, opportunity and the test of suffering.