Points again, gazing fixedly.

It seems to me to be written in fire.

Rhoda.

What seems written?

Michaelis.

What I have been doing, all these five years.

Rhoda.

Since your work began?

Michaelis.

It has never begun. Many times I have thought, "Now," and some man or woman has risen up healed, and looked at me with eyes of prophecy. But a Voice would cry, "On, on!" and I would go forward, driven by a force and a will not my own.—I didn't know what it all meant, but I know now.