"The crest and crowning of all good,
Life's common goal is brotherhood."
And when the curtains swept together—the curtains made of everybody's flags—I tell you, it left us all feeling like we ain't felt in I don't know when.
Within about a minute afterward Ruth and Ina and Irene were around me.
"Miss Calliope," they said, "the Red Cross isn't going to stop."
"No?" I said.
"We're going to start in with these foreign-born boys and girls—" Ina said.
"We're going to teach them all the things To-morrow was pretending to teach them," Ruth said.
"And we're going to learn a thing or two they can teach us," I says, "beginning with Achilles."
They knew what I meant, and they nodded.