Hilda Wade, standing beside me, with an awestruck air, added a stanza
from the same great poem:

Lofty designs must close in like effects:
Loftily lying,
Leave him--still loftier than the world suspects,
Living and dying.

I gazed at her with admiration. "And it is YOU, Hilda, who pay him this
generous tribute!" I cried, "YOU, of all women!"

"Yes, it is I," she answered. "He was a great man, after all, Hubert.
Not good, but great. And greatness by itself extorts our unwilling
homage."

"Hilda," I cried, "you are a great woman; and a good woman, too. It
makes me proud to think you will soon be my wife. For there is now no
longer any just cause or impediment."

Beside the dead master, she laid her hand solemnly and calmly in
mine. "No impediment," she answered. "I have vindicated and cleared my
father's memory. And now, I can live. 'Actual life comes next.' We have
much to do, Hubert."

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