But do let us be practical. We wait a
week; we marry; but then what shall we do? Shall we reform the world? I
think we shall do that in spite of ourselves; for if two people dare to be
simple, there's no reason why two million shouldn't." She lay at peace
considering; her blue eyes, searching wonderfully into his, saw peace like
a crown of stars.
"I'll tell you what I should like to do," she said. "I've thought about it
this minute. It never occurred to me before, but I should like to teach
better than anything in the world."
He looked far out to the white rim of horizon. He took her very seriously.
"It's the highest profession of all, of course. Let's think. I've begun on
it already, oddly enough. And yet, you know, it's not odd. Nothing is
after our experiences.... We will teach. Woodcraft, weathercraft,
husbandry, beast-craft, sky-craft. I can do that much for them. Lit.,
hum., Greek, Latin, English, Dante. History, shadowy; geography,
practical. Tinkering, carpentering, planting. No mathematics; I can't add
two to two."
"But I can," she told him. "I'll teach the babies, for we must have
babies."
His eyes flashed upon hers for one beating second of full interchange.
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