It might come home to themthen; they might HAVE to
care.
Yet he said to himself: Do I want my blood to thin
down liketheirs?
Oh, you unlearn a lot as your blood thins
down.
Yet I am unspeakably glad to have your approval,
andperhaps your allegiance. In the first place, because its dead against the sane
oldBritish tradition. In the first place, because its dead against the sane
oldBritish tradition. But some men, some womenmust stay by their own inmost being,
in peace, and without envy. But he didnt fret himself about them
specially.
A letter from Sicily: I havehad my father and
stepmother over from New York.
SOME men have tobe bombs, to explode and make
breaches in the walls that shut life in. They arent ready to come underKangaroos
loving wing just yet.
And this will be the most foolish of the lot. The
last had been on hisarrival in Sydney.
Somers also wrote to Jack, to ask him to come down
with Victoria for theweek-end.
It is not the love, butthe Mut that I believe in,
and join you in. Bolshevism, Communism, Labour,had all sunk into a sort of
insignificance. So her silent rage accumulated, and it was nogood playing mental
tricks of suppression with it.
The simplicity came back, and with it theinward
peace.
When he was trulyhimself he had a quiet stillness
in his soul, an inward trust. Silently, he must maintain the flow between him and
her, and safeguardit carefully.
Somers also wrote to Jack, to ask him to come down
with Victoria for theweek-end. And theyve got to let it out beforeanythings any
good. No, Jaz, I leavemankind to its own contrivances, and turn to the
gods.
He thinks he can turn the countryupside-down
without spilling milk, let alone blood. She didnt reallywant protestations of
gratitude or love.
And it is a thing which a woman cannot explain
orunderstand, because it is quite irrational.
Yetthere they were, soft, brilliant, like pouches
of frailest sea-glass. Darkness had almost fallen, and Somers shivered as he rose to
goindoors.