If you had not seen
clearly what I meant, you would have been really
offended. You'd have gone away and not come
back.''
She saw that this was true. And, seeing, she
wondered how she could have been so stupid as not to have
seen it at once. She had yet to learn that overlooking
the obvious is a universal human failing and that seeing
the obvious is the talent and the use of the superior
of earth--the few who dominate and determine the
race.
``You reproach me for not having helped you,'' he
went on. ``How does it happen that you are uneasy
in mind--so uneasy that you are quarreling at me?''
A light broke upon her. ``You have been drawing
me on, from the beginning,'' she cried. ``You have
been helping me--making me see that I needed
help.''
``No,'' said he. ``I've been waiting to see whether
you would rouse from your dream of grandeur.''
``YOU have been rousing me.''
``No,'' he said. ``You've roused yourself. So you
may be worth helping or, rather, worth encouraging,
for no one can HELP you but yourself.
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