I sometimes think they
would never notice it if I stayed away all the time. But what I mean
about Vetch is simply that he has set me thinking. He does that, you
know. Oh, I admit that he is mistaken--or downright wrong--in a number
of ways! He is too sensational for our taste--too flamboyant; but one
can't get away from him. He has shaken the dust from us; he has jolted
us into movement. I have a feeling somehow that his personality is
spread all over the place--that we are smeared with Gideon Vetch, as the
darkeys would say."
He was already a different Stephen from the one who had got into her car
an hour ago, and she breathed a secret prayer of thanksgiving.
"I think even John feels that now and then," she said, and a moment
afterward, "Is it possible, do you suppose, that we shall find when it
is too late that this Gideon Vetch is the stone that the builders
rejected? A ridiculous fancy, and yet who knows, it might turn out to be
true. Stranger things have happened than that!"
"It may be.
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