eyes went once over the dingy street, the memorable scene. Thought
shook through her in poignant pictures.... Herself, one day, prostrated
by calamity on calamity; and in the little island-circle where she had
spent her life, not one heart that had taken her sorrow as its own. And
beside that picture, this: a great company, men and women, old and
young, silent beneath a window: and somewhere among them the sounds of
persistent weeping....

And Cally seemed suddenly to see what had been hidden from her before.
If he was much loved, it was because he had loved much.

Yet her confusion must have lingered. Was it so, indeed? Many, so many,
to compensate his loneliness? It seemed to be important to understand
clearly; and she turned her veiled face toward Pond, and spoke
indistinctly:

"All these.... Are they all ... his friends?"

There sprang a light into the Director's hawk-eyes, changing his whole
look wonderfully.

"They're his mother," he said, "and his brothers and his sisters...."

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