'Would you like to specify just a few?'
'You will see, as soon as you begin to get the run of what I am doing. I want counselI want coöperation. I want you to set me upon some of the woman's work that a man does not readily find out for himself. I am going to take you off to the Hollow as soon as you are quite strong enough.'
'I should think you would prefer to have me set myself upon the "woman's work," ' said Wych Hazel.
He smiled provokingly and observed that there was enough for her and him too.
'Well' said Hazel, with a certain postponement in her voice.
'Well, what?'
'There is no "what" in sight at present, Mr. Rollo.'
'I shall have to give you lessons severely! Look at that acorn.
Don't you like acorns?'
'Very much. But best, I think, in the spring, when they are struggling into life,shooting up and shooting down,shewing their possibilities. They are lovely then, with their little crumpled pink leaves.'
'That's the next stage. I want to make my life like that acorn as it is now, full rounded to its utmost fruitage. So many lives are like these empty cups,with the fruit lost.'