Along the margin of a bay.’
There they are--‘in never-ending line.’”
“There are daffodils elsewhere, as there are solitary spirits elsewhere than in this little being”--and Walter lightly touched the girl’s brow.
Both were silent for a minute. Presently Kate said, “When I was looking at the daffodils, as the sun was on them, they blazed in at my eyes and I was full of light, and now those beautiful words are like the sun on the flowers that I shall carry away with me, and as I lie in bed in the dark I shall think of them, and the golden light will fill my room and fill my heart--
‘Flashing upon that inward eye,
Which is the bliss of solitude.’
That is true of the inward eye. You can see more with that than with the real eye. The man was a prophet. He knew and wrote of things that are not known or are not talked about in the world.”
“So they call you Kitty Alone. You did not give me the second reason. What is that reason?”
The girl looked embarrassed.
“You will laugh at me.”