Helen smiles as she notes the old sign of distrust in himself that used to mark the old young Bauer she used to know. But she says with a new note of life in her own voice: "Yes, come to-morrow."
"There will be much for my heart to tell thine," he says dropping inevitably into the endearing pronoun.
And as he rises and goes away Helen follows his stalwart figure out of the doorway and then goes and sits down by the fire again.
Her mother finds her there.
"Mr. Bauer, Felix, is coming here to-morrow, mother. I know what he is coming to say."
Esther pauses. Helen answers her unspoken question.
"I am going to find my happiness, mother. It is the highest voice I have heard. I am not afraid to answer it."
So with all who have fought and prayed and yearned for the overcoming life in this story, may they all say, "I am not afraid to answer the call when it sounds to me, the sound of 'The High Calling.'"
THE END