I felt that he who
could design or suggest to a designer such a vignette must be
inspired, and I bought the book: it was as an artist, not as a
thinker, that I bought the book for the vignette. When, on reading
it, I came to understand the full meaning of the design, such sweet
comfort and hope did the writer's words give me, that I knew at once
who had impressed me to read it--I knew that my mission in life was
to give artistic development to the sublime ideas of Philip Aylwin.
I began the subject of "Faith and Love." But the more I tried to
render the expression that had fascinated me the more impossible did
the task seem to me. Howsoever imaginative may be any design, the
painter who would produce a living picture must paint from life, and
then he has to fight against his model's expression. Do you remember
my telling you the other day how the spirit of Mary Wilderspin in
heaven came upon me in my sore perplexity and blessed me--sent me a
spiritual body--led me out into the street, and--'
'Yes, yes, I remember; but what happened?'
'We will sit,' said Wilderspin.
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