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"Yes," I said, "it has done me good to see all this it makes many things plain; but can you bear to leave them thus?" "Leave them!" said Amroth. "Who knows but that I shall be sent to help them away, and carry them, as I carried you, to the crystal sea of peace? The darling mother, I shall be there at her awakening.
You will think of me while you can, and if you have the time, you may pay me a visit, though I don't suppose I shall recognise you." "It seems rather dreadful to me," said I, "I must confess! Who would have thought that I should have forgotten my visions so soon? Amroth, dear, I can't bear this that you should suffer such a change." "Sentiment again, brother," said Amroth.
It was I who urged that you might go forward, and I confess I am disappointed at the result. You are softer than I thought." "Indeed I am not," I said. "I will go down the rocks and come up again, if that will satisfy you." "Come, that is a little better," said Amroth, "and I will tell you now that you did well better indeed at the time than I expected.
I recognised in Amroth a mirthful soul, full of humour and laughter, who could not be shocked by any truth, or hold anything uncomfortably sacred though indeed he held all things sacred with a kind of eagerness that charmed me.
"I can endure it," I said, laughing, "for it does me good to see you and to hear you; but tell me, Amroth, what have you been about all this time? Have you had a thought of me?" "Yes, indeed," said Amroth, laughing.
Well, of course all that had been planned, though we did not know it." "What!" said I; "the evil as well as the good?" The two looked at each other and smiled. "That is not a very real distinction," said Amroth. "Of course the poor bodies got in the way, as always; there was some fizzing and some precipitation, as they say in chemistry.
"Not quite," said Amroth; "you were more on the right lines than the people who interfered with you, no doubt; but of course the truth is that our principles ought to be used, like a stick, to support ourselves, not like a rod to beat other people with.
Then a dreadful dizziness came over me, and I felt Amroth's hand put round me to sustain me. Then in a faint whisper, that was almost inaudible, Amroth, pointing with his finger downwards, said: "Watch that place where the light seems clearest." I did so. Suddenly there came, as from the face of the cliff, a thing like a cloudy jet of golden steam.
"Yes, I feel better already," said the old lady, smiling; "it always does me good to say out what I am feeling, father; and then you are sure to understand." The mist closed suddenly in upon the scene, and we were back in a moment in the garden with its porticoes, in the radiant, untroubled air. Amroth looked at me with a smile that was full, half of gaiety and half of tenderness.
They were even more kindly and affectionate than others, because they did not seem to have any small problems of their own, and could give their whole attention and thought to the person they were with. These inscrutable people puzzled me very much. I asked Amroth about them once. "Who are these people," I said, "whom one sometimes meets, who are so far removed from all of us?
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