"It may be so," she said. "Perhaps part of your destiny is to learn through that man, and to teach him."
"Oh, Susan! If it should be!"
Life suddenly seemed glittering with wonder to Charmian, quivering with possibility.
"But you must learn to love, if you are to do any real good."
"Learn! Why, I've just told you—"
"No, no. You don't quite understand me. Our personal loves must be expanded. They must become universal. We must overflow with love."
Charmian stared. This very quiet, very neat, and very practical woman had astonished her.
"Do you?" she almost blurted out.
"It's very, very difficult. But I wish to and try to. Do you know, I think perhaps that is why you have told me all this."
"Perhaps it is," said Charmian. "I could never have told it to anyone else."