‘I can’t,’ she said. ‘Here are nine drawers all quite full of heart’s blood. O Jack3, look!’
And she brought across to me a photograph I had taken of Legs jumping the lawn-tennis net. He was sitting in the air apparently4 in an easy attitude. One knee seemed crossed over the other, and his mouth was wide open.
‘It will be harder than ever this year,’ she said, half to herself. ‘And there are nine drawers full!’
‘Circumscribe the drops of heart’s blood as they come,’ said I. ‘Don’t think there are nine drawers full. Only keep thinking of the particular thing that has to be kept or thrown away.’
‘Oh, but it’s only the fact that there are nine drawers full that makes it possible to throw anything away at all,’ said she.
‘Hush, woman!’ said I.
Personally, I am extremely methodical over the work of destruction. I clear a table and dump upon it a pile of heart’s blood. This I{283} sort into three heaps, one of which is for destruction, one for preservation5, and one for further consideration. I proceeded to do so now.
There were many pieces of string. Throughout the year I keep pieces of string, because I know I shall use them. As a matter of fact, when I want a piece of string I cut it off Helen’s ball, and never use any of the bits that I have saved, because I don’t know where they are, and they would prove to be the wrong length if I did. So on the day of destruction I consign6 them to the dust-bin, and begin to collect again immediately. Then there was a pill-box full of soft yellow powder, which Legs and I had collected from the little cedar-cones at some house where we were staying in the autumn. That I put on to the heap of destruction, but transferred it to the heap of consideration. Then there were a dozen little bits of verd-antique which I had picked up years ago on the beach at Capri, and which I had periodically tried to throw away. But I never could manage it, and this morning, knowing it was useless to strive{284} against the irresistible8, I made no attempt whatever to steel myself to their destruction, but put them at once into the pile that was predestined unto life. There was a chunk9 of amber10 that I had picked up at Cromer, equally imperishable; yards and yards of indiarubber tape that is the filling of a rubber-cored golf-ball; a small bottle with a glass stopper, clearly impossible to throw away, since it might come in useful any day, and how foolish I should feel if this afternoon I wanted a bottle with a glass stopper, and had to send into the town for one, whereas, if I had been less iconoclastic11, I might have airily produced the exact thing needed out of the left-hand top drawer. Then came a little tin box full of pink powder, which I concluded was rouge12. This was puzzling.
‘When did I use rouge?’ I asked Helen.
‘I don’t know. Was it Legs’, do you think, when he acted the Red Queen last year?’
No, I couldn’t throw that away. The Red Queen had been a piece of genius. And next came the telegram from him to me saying that he had passed into the Foreign Office. Then there was a vile13 caricature of myself at the{285} top of my so-called swing at golf—quite unrecognizable, I assure you, but....
Then came a mass of letters, receipted bills, and accounts rendered. Accounts rendered always fill me with suspicion, and I have to hunt among unpaid14 bills to find the items of the account rendered, as I feel a moral certainty that this is an attempt to defraud15 me. But they are invariably correct. But these and the receipted bills, which had to be docketed and tied up together in a bundle, took time. Probably, however, I could tie them up with one of those many pieces of string which I had so diligently16 collected. By a rare and happy chance I found one that would do exactly, and tied them up with a beautiful hard knot, and put them on the predestination heap. A moment afterwards I found several more to join the same packet, split my nail over trying to untie17 my beautiful knot, and had to go upstairs for nail-scissors to cut it smooth, and brought them down to cut the knot. No other piece of string in my collection would do, and so I cut a piece off Helen’s ball, for she had left the room for the moment.{286}
Then I came upon a large quantity of boxes of fusees, all partly empty. How it happens is this: I go to play golf on a windy day, and, of course, have to buy at the club-house a box of fusees. These, on my return, or what remains18 of them, I methodically put in a drawer on reaching home. By an oversight19 I forget to take them out again when I play next day, and so buy another box, which I similarly place in a drawer. And if you play golf four or five times a week on these downs, where there is almost always a high wind, it follows that in the course of a year the amount of partly filled boxes of fusees which you collect about you is nothing short of prodigious20. I did not know how great a supporter I was of home industries.
My methodical mind saw at once how these had to be treated. Of course, throwing them all away was out of the question, and the right thing to do was to produce out of every dozen of partly filled boxes some eight or nine completely full. This plan I began to put into practice at once.
It was necessary, of course, to find how{287} many matches a full fusee-box contained, but they are awkward to pack, and some seemed to hold ten and others only seven; so when Helen came back, the table was covered, among other things, with fusees. So I waved my arms violently, and said: ‘You shall not!’ This was because the female nose, and the male nose if it is unaccustomed to tobacco-smoke, likes, positively21 likes, the smell of fusees; but to anyone who smokes tobacco the smell of them is, for some reason, perfectly22 nauseating23, and that is why we only use them in the open air.
Then Helen’s mean nature asserted itself. She said, ‘Oh, I forgot you don’t like the smell,’ and soon after (not at once, mark you) called my attention to some non-existent object of horticultural interest out of the window. I turned, and in a moment she had lit a fusee, and positively inhaled24 the sickening perfume of it. I only wished she had inhaled it all.
The upshot was that we took a turn on the lawn, while the room with open door and windows recovered from its degrading odour.
‘How were you getting on?’ she asked.{288}
‘Not very well. I decided25 to destroy some string. I nearly destroyed a pill-box with some cedar-flower dust in it. But I reserved that. At least, I think I did.’
‘Why?’
‘Legs and I collected it, and I know Legs wouldn’t have thrown it away, so I can’t.’
Helen was silent a moment; then,
‘Do you miss Legs very much?’ she asked. ‘His bodily presence, I mean, of course.’
‘Of course I do, just as you do. I miss him all the time. Oh, he is in the room, and he laughs at us, or with us. I know that.’
‘Then what do you miss?’ she asked.
‘The young body about the house.’
Then Helen said: ‘Oh, you darling!’
That sort of remark is always extremely pleasant, but I had no notion of her artfulness. I am glad to say that she has often said it before, so that it was not particularly stupid of me not to guess that it meant anything especial. And with her artfulness she changed the subject to that which I happened to be thinking about, thus making no transition.
‘I gave up,’ she said. ‘I found all my{289} things were so connected with Legs that I couldn’t destroy them. It is just what you said. We want to keep the young thing in the house, since we are getting old—yes, it’s no use saying “Pouf!”—and I can’t destroy anything connected with him. So shall we move our rubbish straight into Legs’ room, and make a sort of young museum? Then, when we feel particularly middle-aged26, we can go up there and sit among the young things. If we don’t do that, we must clear out his room as well, and I can’t see how we can. There are rough copies of letters to that dreadful Charlotte; there is a letter in his handwriting, there on his table, beginning——’
‘Beginning “You’re a damned fool!”’ said I, ‘“but I don’t intend to quarrel with you.” Did you mean that one?’
‘Then you have been there, too?’ she said.
‘Why, of course, every day. I go when you attend to household affairs after breakfast; you go when you say you are going to bed. Didn’t you know?’
‘Certainly I did, but I thought you didn’t know that I went there,’ she said.{290}
‘Ditto,’ said I.
There was a huge rushing wind out of the south-west, and we stood a little while inhaling27 the boisterousness28 of it. All spring was in it, all the renewal29 of life.
‘How Legs is laughing at us!’ she said.
‘I don’t care. Let’s have the museum of young things. Let’s put there all the things we can’t throw away. Oh, Helen, there are photographs, too! There is one of him in his last half at Eton.... There is one of you and me when the Canadian canoe sank gently, and as we stood dripping on the shore he photographed us. And I photographed him and you when you said you would skate a rocking-turn together, and fell down. Heart’s blood, heart’s blood! There ought to be a law which makes it a penal30 offence to keep photographs,’
I suppose I had got excited, for Helen took my arm and said:
‘There, there!’
But even that did not do.
‘Oh, the pity of it,’ I cried—‘the pity of it! Why didn’t he take a train to come down? Why didn’t that omnibus pull up? He was{291} ours, and he would have married, and still been ours, and there would have been young things about the house again.’
I suppose I had torn away from her, for now we were apart, facing each other, at the end of this; and she smiled so quietly, so serenely31.
‘Do you think that I don’t feel that, too?’ she asked. ‘Can’t you see that the wife who is mother of nothing must feel it more than the husband who is father of nothing? Besides, you make your books—you are father to them. What do I do? I order dinner.’
And yet—it seems to me so strange now—I did not see. There was bitterness in her words, but all I thought was that there was no bitterness in her voice, or her face, or her smile. I did not quite understand that, I remember, but Helen has told me since that she did not mean me to. She wanted—well, her plan evolves itself.
And then she took my arm again.
‘It is nearly a month since dear Legs went away,’ she said, ‘since we have actually heard and seen him. The last we heard was that he wanted us to buck32 up. Do you know, I think{292} we have bucked33 up. But we have been doing that singly; we have somehow lived rather apart, dear. Surely it is better to buck up together. I think the idea of a young museum is a very good one. Let us put all the things we can’t throw away into his room. We have never used the room before, because Legs might always rush down and want a bed; and so let us keep it like that. We might call it the nursery.’
And so the young museum was started. Helen had all manner of tender trifles for it, all connected with Legs. She had all sorts of things I had known nothing of: little baby garments, Legs’ bottle, some baby socks. Then there were child things as well: ‘Alice in Wonderland,’ the depressing Swiss family called Robinson, a far better Robinson called Crusoe.
And thus the nursery grew. ‘Treasure Island’ went there; a rocking-horse, which I remembered of old days, was brought down from an attic34. Oh, how well, when I saw him again, I remembered him! He had a green base, nicely curved, on which he pranced35 to and fro, and my foot{293} had once been under it when he pranced, so that I lost a toenail, and was rewarded with sixpence for stopping crying. He had a hollow interior, the only communication with which were the holes of the pommels, and on another dreadful day my sister had dropped a three-penny-bit into one of them, with some idea of making a bank. A bank it was, but the capital was irrecoverable. The coin was still there, for now I took up the whole horse with ease, that steed which had so often carried me, and heard a faint chink from his stomach. He had a wild eye, too, and flaming red nostrils36, and the paint smelt37 just the same as ever. And Helen produced a Noah’s ark, in which the paint was of familiar odour, but different, and there was Ham without a stand, and Mrs. Noah in a neat brown ulster, and Noah with a beard, and one good foot, but the other was a pin. Elephants were there with pink trunks (I never could understand why), and enormous ducks with pink bills (which now threw a light on the colour of the elephants’ trunks, since I suppose that a brush full of pink was indiscriminately bestowed), and small spotted38 tigers, and nameless{294} beasts which we called lynxes, chiefly because we did not know what they were, and did not know what lynxes were, so they were probably the ones. The ark itself had Gothic windows, and a mean white bird, with a piece of asparagus in its mouth, painted on the roof, probably indicated the dove and the leaf.
We must have spent two days over the nursery, and during those days we concentrated there all the young things of the house, and when it was finished it was a motley room. There were photographs of Legs everywhere; all his papers were kept; everything that had any connection with Legs and with youth was crammed39 into it. And when it was finished we found that we sat there together, instead of paying secret visits to the room, and we played at Noah’s ark, sitting on the carpet, and played at soldiers, clearing a low table which had been Helen’s nursery-table (for you cannot play soldiers on the floor, since they stagger on a carpet), and peas from pea-shooters sent whole rows of Grenadiers down like ninepins. But we could neither of us ride the rocking-horse, so instead we tilted40 him backwards41 and for{295}wards, and pretended he was charging the foe42.
Of course, all reasonably-minded readers will say we were two absurd people. We both of us disagree altogether. For you have to judge of any proceedings43 by its effects, and the effect in this case was that Legs’ injunction that we should ‘buck up’ became a habit. That inimitable youth which Legs gave the home, he, his bodily presence, had gone. But somehow the atmosphere was recaptured. We played at youth, at childhood, till it became real again. For a household without youth in it is a dead household; a puppy or a kitten may supply it, or an old man of eighty may supply it. But youth of some kind must be part of one’s environment. Else the world withers44.
Another thing has happened to me personally. I have said that at the beginning of the year I looked forward into the future through two transparencies, one sunlit, the other dark. But now the dark one (I can express it in no other way) had been withdrawn45. Dear Legs’ death was not quite identical with it, for it was not withdrawn then. But during the month that{296} followed it gradually melted away. I can trace just two causes for it.
The first was this: In ineptitude46 of spirit I had reasoned to myself that the death of the body logically implied the merging48 of the life into the one central life. But after his death Legs became to my spirit more individual than ever. And the second cause was this establishment of the nursery. Though youth might have passed for oneself, it still lived. One was wrong, too (at least I was), in thinking it had passed from oneself. Else how did I feel so singularly annoyed when Helen shot down with a wet pea a whole regiment49 of my Life Guards? I was annoyed; I am still. It was a perfect fluke that the Colonel on horseback fell in such a way that he more than decimated his own regiment. And I am sure Helen shook the table, else why should the Brigadier-General, posted in the extreme rear, have fallen off the table altogether? She won.
Meantime in this first week of March the winds were roaring out of the south-west, and for a while, days together sometimes, squalls which the Valkyrie maidens50 might have bridled{297} to make steeds for their swift going came in unbroken procession from the Atlantic. Helen is a lover of the sea, and these gales51 coming out of the waste of waters touch something within her as mysterious as the sixth sense of animals, who feel and are excited by things that the five-sensed mortal is unaware53 of. To-day, however, was quiet and calm, and we stormed the steep ascent54 of the downs till we stood on the highest point of the Beacon55, which looks down on all other land towards the south-west, so that the river of wind that flows from the Atlantic comes here unbreathed and untamed by traverse of other country, and you get it fresh and salt as it was when it left the ocean.
In that interval56 of quiet weather there was nothing to be perceived by the ordinary sense, but she sniffed57 the air like a filly at grass.
‘Wind is coming,’ she said, ‘the great wind from the sea. I don’t care whether your little barometer58 has gone up or not; what does it know of the winds? We shall be at home before it comes, but I will tell you then, as we sit close to the fire, what is happening in the big places.{298}’
She was quite right; though the silly barometer had gone up, we were but half through dinner when the wind, which had been no more than a breeze all afternoon, struck the house as suddenly as a blow. The wood fire on the hearth59 gave a little puff60 of smoke into the room, and then, thinking better, suddenly sparkled as if with frost, as the passage of the air above the chimney drew it up. At that Helen’s eyes were alight. She ate no more, but sat with her elbows on the table, while I, who have not the sixth sense, went gravely through mutton and anchovies61 on toast and an orange. Then they brought in coffee, and she shook her head to that. Meantime that first warning of the wind had been justified62; a Niagara of air poured over us, screaming and hooting63, and making a mad orchestra of sound. At times it ceased altogether—the long pause of the conductor—and then, before one heard the wind at all, a tattoo64 of the drums of rain, sounded on the window-pane. Then, heralded65 by those drums, the whole mad orchestra burst into a great tutti of screaming, hooting, sobbing66. So much I could hear, but {299}Helen was of it somehow. Something secret and sensitive within her vibrated to the uproar67.
I have seen her in the grip of the wind, as she expresses it, perhaps half a dozen times, and it always makes me vaguely68 uneasy. It is no less than a possession, and yet I can think of no one whom I would have imagined less liable to such a thing. I can imagine her surrounded by the terrors of fire or shipwreck69, or any catastrophe70 that overthrows71 the reason, and makes men mere72 panic-stricken maniacs73, keeping absolutely calm, and infecting others by her self-possession. But now and then the wind takes possession of her, and she becomes like the Pythian prophetess.
‘Oh, to be alone with the sea and the gale52 to-night!’ she said. ‘Jack, what splendid things are happening in the great empty places of the world! This has been brewing74 out on the Atlantic for a couple of days by now, and there are thousands of miles of great white-headed waves rising and falling in the darkness, and calling to each other, and dancing together. Up above them, as in the gallery of the ball-room, is {300}the great mad band of which we hear a little in our stuffy75 house, and it will play to them all night and all to-morrow, and the waves will dance without ceasing, growing bigger as they dance, like some nightmare. Oh, you can imagine nothing! But I see so clearly Mr. and Mrs. Wave and all their family dancing, dancing, all young, though white-headed, and growing bigger as they dance. They are cannibals, too, and a big wave will eat up a little one, which makes it bigger yet. The wind loves to see that. He gives a great blare of trumpets76 when he sees a cannibal wave. Oh, it must have happened this moment! That scream meant, “Well done, wave! That was a big one you swallowed!”
‘Sometimes they see a ship coming along, and they love playing with ships, because all proper ships like being out in the Atlantic ball-room, and the waves crowd towards it, seeing which can lift it highest. Whiz! Can’t you hear the screw racing77, as the wave that lifted the stern runs away from under it? How the masts strike right and left across a thousand stars, for the sky is quite clear! The winds have turned out the clouds as you turn out{301} the chairs and tables from a room where you dance.’
We had gone up to Legs’ room after dinner, and as she talked she went quickly from place to place, now pausing for a moment to look at a photograph, now putting coal on the fire, or drawing aside the curtain to look into the night.
‘Oh, there is the eternal youth of the world,’ she said—‘the song of the winds and the dance of the waves. I think all the souls of the little babies that are born come to land in the blowing from the sea. It is by that that vitality78 burns higher, and the fruitfulness of the world is renewed. Millions of blossoms of life are rushing over the land to-night, ready to drop into lonely homes——’
‘Ah, don’t, don’t,’ I said. ‘Helen, come and sit down and be quiet.’
She paused for a moment opposite me, looking at me with her wonderful shining eyes.
‘Not I, not I,’ she said.
She still paused, still looking at me, still waiting for me to join her, as it were. And in that pause a sudden faint far-away light broke{302} on me. She had said words which must have awoke in her, even as they awoke in me, the most keen and poignant79 sorrow that can touch those who love each other, and yet she was still smiling, and her eyes shone.
I got up. Something of that huge joy that transfigured her was wrapping me round also. The thrill, the rapture80 in which she was enveloped81, began to encompass82 us.
‘What do you mean?’ I asked.
‘It is for you to tell me,’ she said. ‘It must be done that way.’
‘You said “ready to drop into lonely homes,”’ I said.
‘“So that they are filled with laughter,”’ said she.
Then I knew.
‘It is here,’ I said—‘the nursery.’
And at that the excitement, the exultation83 slowly passed from the face of my beloved, for there was no room there for more than motherhood. Though the wind still bugled84 and trumpeted85 outside, she heard it no more; the wildness of the dancing waves, grey-headed, growing waves, passed by outside her.... The{303} blossom ready to drop filled her heart with the tenderness of the infinite deep love of the mother that shall be.
She sat there on the floor at my feet, with her arms round my knees and her head pillowed there.
‘I have got to confess, too,’ she said, ‘though I am not ashamed of my confession86. But don’t allow yourself to be hurt, Jack. Just hold on for a minute without being hurt, and you will find that you are not. Now I shall hide my face, and speak to you like that. I have known it quite a long time: before Legs died I knew it.’
Well, I had to hold on for a minute or two, and not be hurt. If you think it over, you, will agree it was rather a hard task that I had been set. On the other hand, about big things, about things that really matter, you must take my word for it that Helen is never wrong. But I had not been forbidden to ask a question.
‘Then why did you not tell me?’ I said.
Her head with the sunlit billows just stirred a moment, but she did not look up, but spoke87 with a hidden face.{304}
‘Because through all these weeks, my darling, you have been struggling against some bitterness of soul. You have made light of it to me, but I had to be quite sure it had gone from you before I told you this. I know what it was—it was the doubts you talked about to me when we sat one night at the edge of dear Legs’ grave—when it was dug, but empty. And I had to be quite sure it had all passed from you before I told you this. I have not been sure till now, and—and I wanted you so much to guess. You nearly guessed, I felt, when we arranged this heavenly nursery.’
Then again there was silence, and I think I never knew till then how desperately88 difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is so much easier to be honest with other people. At the first glance I told myself I had got over the bitterness and blindness of which she had spoken when we talked together over Legs’ grave, but gradually I became aware that I had not. Somewhere deep down, so that while the days passed it concealed89 itself from me, that bitterness had still been there. In this book, which has tried to be honest, you will, I dare{305} say, find no trace of it since that night, but I had not probed deep enough. It had been there, and I think the days when we arranged the nursery finally expelled it. To-night, at least, I believed it was gone, and since Helen believed so, too, perhaps we are right about it. She, the witch, the diviner, had known me so much better than I had known myself all along.
All this took time, for the processes of honesty with me are slow. But there is no difficulty about the matter, perhaps, if the head you love best in all the world is pillowed on your knee. That is a stimulant90, one must imagine. So at last I said:
‘Yes, it’s done.’
She came closer yet, and, like Mr. Holmes, we talked below our breath, in whispers, as if afraid of disturbing this great joy that had come floating down on us, borne on the sea-spray, borne on the wind-tide, borne as you will, so that only it came here.
Then, very soon after, she went to bed, and I was left sitting in the nursery, with its new significance. Yet it was not quite new. I had, as Helen said, ‘half guessed before,’ and I but{306} wondered, now I knew, how my imagination had halted half-way, and had not clearly seen the star on which Helen’s eyes were fixed91. Yet who would have known? She had been so full of art in her wording; even that master-word she had used, ‘nursery,’ seemed but to have slipped in, and I had thought she meant only—as, indeed, she had said—that it was to be the room of young things, where she should sit when the shadow of childlessness was chill, and with the aid of the memories of youth and play keep the mists of middle age from closing round us, and the frosts of old from settling too stiffly on the later years of our travel. The room was to be but a palliative or a tonic92, as you will, a consolation93 for the things that were not to be for us, and now it showed another face. It was not the past of which it spoke, but the future.
I suppose I sat long over the embers of the fire, but these were hours that had escaped from the hand of Time, and were not to be computed94 by his scale. Sometimes I threw a log into the open hearth of the fireplace (ah, but that open{307} hearth must be altered now; it would never do in the nursery), and sometimes I plied47 an industrious95 pair of bellows96, but for the most part I sat idle, looking into the fiery97 heart of the blaze; for the news that Helen had made me guess was at first unrealizable. Though I knew it to be true, I had to absorb, digest it, since a great joy is as stunning98 a thing as the stroke of sorrow. And gradually, as gradually as the workings of the process of beauty, I began to feel, and not only to know, the name of the room where I sat. It was the nursery.
But Helen was wrong about one thing. She had said that the wind would play to the dancing of the waves all night and all next day, but before I went to bed that wild orchestra of the storm had ceased. Its work was done for us. It had blown the bud of the blossom of life into the house that so longed for it.
It is strange how quickly the events of life become part of one. Next morning I woke in full possession of the new knowledge. There was no question or uncertainty99 as to what that{308} was which made a rapture of waking. And with the same suddenness all real knowledge of what life had been before I knew this had passed from me. I could no longer in the least realize what I had felt like before the moment came when Helen had made me guess. Though that moment was so few hours away, yet I could no more conceive existence without it than one can form any mental picture of what life would be without the gift of sight or hearing. It is not that any huge event destroys all that went before it, but it so stains back through the turned pages of the past that they are all coloured and suffused100 with it.
How the blackbirds and thrushes sang on that March morning! I had awoke before dawn to hear the early tuning-up going on in the bushes, and before long, since I was too happy to sleep, I got up, dressed quietly, and went out. The tuning-up was just over, and the birds were all busy with breakfast, for you must know, as soon as they wake, they get in singing-trim for the day before their bright-eyed quest, listening, with head cocked as they scuttle{309} over the lawn, for the sound of a worm moving. They are so close to the ground themselves that they can localize this to within a fraction of an inch, and then in goes the spear-like beak101, and the poor thing is dragged out of the soft, dew-drenched earth. They are not quite tidy eaters, these dear minstrels of the garden, for the point is to get your breakfast inside you beyond recall, with the least possible delay. Swallow, gulp102, swallow, and the thing is done. Then you give one long flute-like note of satisfaction, and listen again for the second course. But one cannot exactly say that they have bad manners at table, for the extreme sensibleness of the plan excludes all other considerations. Also, bad manners at table irresistibly103 suggest greediness, and no bird is ever greedy. They have excellent appetites, and when they have had enough they stop eating, and instantly begin to sing.
It was just at the end of birds’ breakfast that I got out—that is to say, it still wanted some minutes to sunrise. The lawn was all gossamer-webbed and shimmering104 with dew, as if some thin layer of moonstone or transparent105 pearl had been veneered over emerald, and I felt it{310} almost a vandalism to walk over it, removing with my clumsy feet whole patches of thin inimitable jewellery. The three-hour gale of the night before had vanished to give place to a morning of halcyon106 calm, and I augured107 one of those rare and exquisite108 days which March sometimes gives us—days of warm windlessness and the promise of spring. Straight in front of me rose the Beacon, still submerged in clear dark shadow, but high in the heavens above dawn had come, for it made a golden fleece—one such as never Jason handled—of the little cirrhus clouds that the gale had forgotten to sweep away. Dawn would soon strike the Beacon, too, but before that I hoped to stand on its top, and see the huge embrace of day and night, the melting and absorption of darkness into light. Even the river, with its waving water-weeds and aqueous crystal, did not detain me, and I gave but ten minutes to the ascent, for I wanted to welcome the dawn from a high place, to stand on the roof of the hills to greet it.
Slowly dawn descended109 from the sky, quivering {311}and palpitating with light. The great golden flood came nearer and nearer the earth, which as yet caught but the reflection from the radiant heavens. It hung a moment hovering110, the bright-winged iridescent111 bird of dawn, just above my head, and then the sun leaped up, vaulting112 above the eastern hills. The level shafts113 of light swept across the land, a mantle114 of gold, while in the valleys below the clear dusk still lay like tideless waters. But down the hill-sides strode the day, throwing its bright arms about the night, enfolding and encompassing115 it in miraculous116 embrace, and I looked to where home was. Already the big elms in the garden were pillars of flame, then the roof burned, and suddenly the windows blazed signal-like. Dawn had come.
That was not half the miracle. Light had awoke, the hills were gilded117 with the sun, but at the touch of the gilding118 larks119 innumerable sprang from the warm tussocks of down-grass and aspired120. A hundred singing specks121 rose against the sky, each infinitesimal, so that they seemed but like the little motes122 that swim across the eyeball, but these were living things with open throat that hailed the sunrise. Perpendicularly123 they rose,{312} wings quivering, and throat a-tremble with song, till the eye lost them against the dazzling azure124 of day, and only enraptured125 voices from the air made the heavens musical, as if the morning stars sang together. Heaven made holiday. Its company of sweet singers and the gold of sunrise were one thing—the dawn.
Dear God, dear God, how I thank You for that indestructible minute! I knew now what the sunlit curtain that lay between the future and me was, and the very morning after I had known You let me see from this high place the birth of day. In this physical world there was reproduced that golden sunlit curtain. You made visible to me what my heart knew. And to me on the top of the Beacon the windows of my home flashed a beacon to me. And all was of Your making—the sun and the mounting skylarks, and down below the trees of the garden, and the beaconing, flushing window of my beloved, and the fruit of the womb. When I come to die, I want to remember all that. Truth and Life were there, and the Way also. And what is the sum of those three things?{313}
Yet was I content even then? Good heavens, no! There were many beautiful things yet to be, and the glory of His gifts just lies in this—that there is always something better to come. This great bran-pie of the earth never gives to our little groping hands its best present. There is always something more. Your heart’s desire is given you, but at the moment of giving your heart is enlarged, and you ask for something better yet. And if you want it enough, you get it. The only difficulty is to want enough. For you are not given, so I take it, things that you have not really desired. All sorts of bonuses come in, pleasant surprises, but the solid dividend126 is for the man who wills. There are fluctuations127, of course, but to look upwards128, without doubt, is a gilt129-edged affair. I correct that. The edge is gilt, and so is the rest of it, and the gilt is laid over gold.
It was thus that I looked from the top of the Beacon, with the mist of the song of the invisible skylarks all round, and the blazing reflection of the windows of our room in the valley; and there among the skylarks it seemed{314} that Legs joined me. It was of no use to deny he was there, simply because it was silly to deny it. There is a French word—revenant—to express his presence, but even the solidity of that word failed to do justice. He had never gone away, and so he could never have come back. He was with us all the time, and rejoiced in the arrangement of the nursery, even as he had been so hopelessly amused at the correctness of Mr. Holmes on the morning of his funeral.
And at the moment of this I expected the ‘open vision.’ Life, and death, and birth, the three great facts, were so near realization130. Again I expected to see Pan peep over the brow of the Beacon, and to hear a flute-like song that was not of skylarks. I was ready—dear God, I was ready.
So I thought for the moment, but before the next had beaten I knew I was not. I wanted more—more of this divine world, more of what the next few months will bring. Should all be well when summer comes, I think I would choose to die now. And the moment I thought that I knew its unreality. I want to live through the beautiful years that will come. I want to have{315} a son at Eton or a daughter who turns the heads of eligible131 youths. I want both, and more than both. Die! Who talked of that? I want to have a full nursery. I want to see Helen old and grey-headed, with grandchildren round her, and herself the youngest of them all. I want to live through the whole of this beautiful life till old age; and though that is called the winter of life, there is no need that it should be so. The last day of a man of eighty should be the most luxuriant of autumn, before the touch of winter has blackened the flowers; for it is only the thought of death that makes us think of old age and winter together, and the thought that does that conceives falsely of death.
So, anyhow, it seemed to me on this midsummer morning of March. I knew that all that was was kind. Pan smiled without cruelty, and if he smiled from the cross, it was from the throne of ineffable132 light that he smiled also.
One by one the skylarks, sated with song, dropped down again to the sunlit down. Dawn had passed, and day had come, and—oh, bathos of bathos!—I was so hungry. If I had given but ten minutes to the ascent, I made but five of{316} the reversed journey, and designed an early breakfast to make existence possible till Helen came down; for it was yet not long after seven, and a Sahara of starvation lay between me and bacon. Yet, though I have said that this was bathos, I do not know that I really think so, since in this delightful133 muddle134 of life everything is so inextricably intertwined that bathos of some kind invariably is the sequel of all high adventure. The great scene is played, the sublime135 thing said, and then you have tea or take a ticket for somewhere. So I confess only to literary bathos, and to disarm136 the critic I may state that these quiet chronicles are not supposed to be literary at all, but merely the plain account of quiet things as they happened.
So I lingered for a moment after the knee-shaking descent was over to talk for a little, but not for long, with the river. There was a great trout137 just below the bridge, and I am sure he knew it was still March, for he wagged his impudent138 head at me, saying: ‘I am perfectly safe. I shall eat steadily139 till April, and then observe your silly flies with a contemptuous eye.’ And though he was a three-pounder at least, I bore him no grudge140. I don’t think I wanted to kill anything that morning.
Then I crossed the further field, and came down into the rose-garden, still meditating141 on the immediate7 assuagement142 of hunger. But then I saw who stood there, and I meditated143 on this no more; for she was there.
‘I got up early,’ she said, ‘and found you had already gone. Oh, good-morning! I forgot.’
‘I shall never forget the goodness of this morning,’ said I.
Then I saw that her eyes were brimming.
‘Ought I to have told you before?’ she said. ‘Forgive me if I ought.’
In that first hour of day we came closer to each other than ever before. My beloved was mine, and the time of the singing-birds had come.
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