12/21 All go seeking it in the teeth of death and horror. That's universal! Joy must be sought. But it may not wear the old face; it may wear another." "I suppose that true joy has one face." "When one platonizes--perhaps! I keep to-day to earth, to the cave. Do you know," said Alexander, "why I sit here wounded ?" "Of outward facts I do not know any more than is, I think, pretty generally known through this countryside." "As-- ?" Strickland looked still at the bowl of flowers. "It is known, I think, that you loved Elspeth Barrow and would have wedded her. |