"_You_ will take the responsibility.

You will take the responsibility.

The people look to you." She spoke softly.

"Listen! For at least half the years of your sleep--in every generation--multitudes of people, in every generation greater multitudes of people, have prayed that you might awake--_prayed_." Graham moved to speak and did not.
She hesitated, and a faint colour crept back to her cheek.

"Do you know that you have been to myriads--King Arthur, Barbarossa--the King who would come in his own good time and put the world right for them ?" "I suppose the imagination of the people--" "Have you not heard our proverb, 'When the Sleeper wakes'?
While you lay insensible and motionless there--thousands came.Thousands.Every first of the month you lay in state with a white robe upon you and the people filed by you.