I had brought him out of his reverie with a jerk. ‘Well: on with it!’

‘I see a green sunlit space, with the shadow of an old hawthorn upon it.

And in the shadow I see two men kneeling, bareheaded, their faces turned

up to the sky. And with all my heart I wish there were a third with

them; but there is not another fit for such company, to my certain

knowledge, within ten thousand miles.’

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