But yet they sinned; and this monument, the gift and work of one young like them, ardent and desiring like them, is for ever in our eyes the crucifixion of our wrong ambitions and our selfish aims.
"Nay, let us be wise and let us be good.

They who rule us speak with foreign tongue, but their hearts desire our peace and a mutual regard.
Pray that this be.

And pray for the young and the daring and the foolish.

And pray also that he who has given us here a good gift may find his thanks in our better-ordered lives, and that he may consecrate his parts and talents to the redeeming actions of this world." And so began the awakening of Francois Lagarre; and so began his ambition and his peril.
For, as he passed from the church, the Seigneur touched him on the shoulder and introduced him to his English grandniece, come on a visit for the summer, the daughter of a London baronet.

She had but just arrived, and she was feeling that first homesickness which succeeds transplanting.