But that was only because Ann did not wholly understand.  Everything the matter with everybody was just that they did not wholly understand.  She grew tender toward all the world.

There rose before her vision of a possible day when all would understand; when none would wish another ill or work another harm; when war and oppression and greed must cease, not because the laws forbade them, but because men’s hearts gave them no place.

“I see it!” she whispered unconsciously.

Her face was touched with the fine light of visioning.  “See what—­dear Katie?  Take me in.”

“The world when love has saved it!” She remembered their old dispute and her arms went about his neck as she told him again:  “Why ’tis love must save the world!”

He held her face in his two hands as if he could not look deeply enough.  And as he looked into her eyes a nobler light was in his own.

“As it has saved us,” he whispered.

They grew very still, hushed by the wonder of it.  In their two hearts there seemed love enough to redeem the world.