"There are a thousand things I want to talk about to you," she said.
"After we have parted to-morrow I shall begin to think of them. But
now--every rational thing seems dissolved in this moonlight...."
Presently she made an effort to restore the intellectual dignity of
their relationship.
"I suppose I ought to be more concerned tonight about the work I have to
do in the world and anxious for you to tell me this and that, but indeed
I am not concerned at all about it. I seem to have it in outline all
perfectly clear. I mean to play a man's part in the world just as
my father wants me to do. I mean to win his confidence and work with
him--like a partner. Then some day I shall be a power in the world of
fuel. And at the same time I must watch and read and think and learn
how to be the servant of the world.... We two have to live like trusted
servants who have been made guardians of a helpless minor. We have
to put things in order and keep them in order against the time when
Man--Man whom we call in America the Common Man--can take hold of his
world--"
"And release his servants," said Sir Richmond.
"All that is perfectly clear in my mind. That is what I am going to live
for; that is what I have to do."
She stopped abruptly. "All that is about as interesting to-night--in
comparison with the touch of your dear fingers--as next month's railway
time-table.
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