6/15 They must recognize him--they must be taught. I have set my heart on it.' 'Does he himself very much care ?' I asked remembering the night of the thirty-first of October. He despises it, of course, but in a way he cares. A human being isn't an orchid; he must draw something from the soil he grows in.' 'If he were stable,' I mused; 'if he had a fixed ambition somewhere in the firmament. But his purpose is a will-o'-the-wisp.' 'I think he has an ambition,' said Miss Harris, into the dark. |