"
"And the mere knowledge that he exists will irradiate the rest of mine."
"Long may it do so. Let us now talk about this morning--did you mean to
declare yourself?"
"I do not know what I meant; what I most cared about was the doing what I
thought George would wish to see his father do."
"You did that; but he says he told you not to say who you were."
"So he did, but I knew what he would think right. He was uppermost in my
thoughts all the time."
Yram smiled, and said, "George is a dangerous person; you were both of
you very foolish; one as bad as the other."
"I do not know. I do not know anything. It is beyond me; but I am at
peace about it, and hope I shall do the like again to-morrow before the
Mayor."
"I heartily hope you will do nothing of the kind. George tells me you
have promised him to be good and to do as we bid you."
"So I will; but he will not tell me to say that I am not what I am."
"Yes, he will, and I will tell you why. If we permit you to be Higgs the
Sunchild, he must either throw his own father into the Blue Pool--which
he will not do--or run great risk of being thrown into it himself, for
not having Blue-Pooled a foreigner. I am afraid we shall have to make
you do a good deal that neither you nor we shall like."
She then told him briefly of what had passed after luncheon at her house,
and what it had been settled to do, leaving George to tell the details
while escorting him towards the statues on the following evening.
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