The young woman opened her blue eyes into her mother's, sat up and began to sob violently. The mother put her arms around the young woman, but the latter jumped from the bed and pulled herself away.
"Now, Eunice, don't act in that way. You can't see how bright a future I have mapped out for you. If you only knew!"
The young woman shook her head in rejection of all that the mother might offer.
"I will let you see her as often as you choose, Eunice!"
"Will you?" almost shrieked the young woman, stamping her foot upon the floor, a wild look of joy leaping into her eye.
"If you will let me plan your future I will not interfere with your relations with her whatever."
"Mother, mother," said the young woman rushing to Mrs. Seabright and throwing her arms about her neck. Between sobs she said, "Mother, mother, do with me what you will, just so you allow me to be with her when I choose. Oh, mother, how I wish you were now what you were before the adder bit you."
Mrs. Seabright, unmoved by this outburst, gently released herself from her daughter's grasp and returned to her rocking chair.
"I shall yet harness to my cause the two forces that are the most potent yet revealed in shaping the course of human society," said she. Going to her window, she looked out into the skies and whispered in confidence to the stars:
"I shall be remembered as long as you shall shine."