human
You know--child, we're given things in this world--good health and fortune and gifts like your music--and my writing--but I don't believe we're given them just to enjoy them ourselves! We're meant to share them! I haven't told you the other picture, my dear!
gpt
Oh, no!
human
I've had a dream, Keineth, these months that I've been gone! It's been a dream of the little home we'd make in some quiet corner where I could write and you could grow and play. It'd be a simple home, but we'd have a great many friends around us. There's a lot in my head I want to write, too--I long for time to do it! I couldn't help but think as I travelled over almost all the lands of the globe that people are alike after all--only some of us have learned things faster than others and some have a lot to learn. If those who see the vision could teach the others--well, to live, as we said, like respectable, happy families in a peaceful street--then this world would know a brotherhood we haven't got now. It could come after this war--we could all be comrades, always going forward shoulder to shoulder! I feel as if I want to write and write and write about it until that picture goes all over the world! Couldn't I do more for all my fellowmen that way than giving up my time to the immense duties of a Cabinet official?
gpt
Could the little home be near Peggy?
human
For a while, anyway.
gpt
And could I go to school with Peggy?
human
Yes, I want you with your friends.
gpt
And you'd have time to play with me?
human
Lots of time--I'd take it! That was part of my dream.
gpt
Oh, Daddy, I like that picture lots best! Only-- She suddenly recalled what her father had said.
human
It would be such a great honor for you to be in the President's Cabinet! And he told me I must make you!
gpt
Keineth, dear, that honor would not mean half as much to me as the joy of serving my fellowmen through my writing! We'll show the President the two pictures--I know he will understand!
human
Would we--would we have to have Aunt Josephine? Then she added, as though a little ashamed,
gpt
Forgets what, child?
human
Oh, that--that she's so--so rich!
gpt
We'll have her part of the time and maybe we can make her--forget.
human
You have decided, you are very sure?