14/15 But there's a locked door in the inner chamber--a shrine that no one has desecrated. The Goddess is there, waiting--waiting to reveal herself.' 'And so--all the rest have been--experiments ?' 'No, The Quest of the Ideal through the Forest of Illusion. I've often thought, Joan, there was a lot in the motive of that novel of Thomas Hardy's THE WELL BELOVED. But I seem to be mixing up my metaphor, and it's time I went back to Government House.' She got up and began putting on her gloves. |