It was not a singing river, but to-day it seemed to have a song, "Go back, go back," it said; "you have seen the world, you have seen the world."
And when he had listened for a little while he climbed the hill to tell Austin and to tell—Eve.
CHAPTER XXII
In Which Anne Weighs the People of Two Worlds.
"Richard!"
"Yes, mother, I'm here. Austin thinks I am crazy, and Eve won't speak to me. But—I came. And to think you have turned the house into a hospital!"
"It seemed the only thing to do. François' mother had no one to take care of her—and there were others, and the house is big."
"You are the biggest thing in it. Mother, if I ever pray to a saint, it will be one with gray hair in a nurse's cap and apron, and with shining eyes."