"Oh, how truly he sees it!"
"Your Sailor-man, does he see that, too?"
"Has he been seeing other things—in your studio?" Vina asked hastily.
"Oh, no, he hasn't been here, but he has been telling David Cairns things about writing…. David has really been born again."
"Do you know, Beth," Vina declared with intensity, "he has been such an inspiration to me, that I'm afraid my 'Stations' will look like a repaired wall, half new and half old plaster."
"My work will stand an inspiration, too."
"Beth——"
"Yes."
"You know what I think of your work, but I believe the Sailor-man could give you that inspiration——"
"Perhaps I can get it through you and David Cairns," remarked Beth, who was beginning to see, and with no little amazement, that to Vina the inspiration was spiritual, impersonal. This made Bedient's influence all the more exciting.