“'We make an agreement with children that they can sit in the audience without helping to make the play,' he said, 'but if they still sit in the audience after they're grown, somebody's got to work double time for them, so they can enjoy the light and glitter of the world.'

'But I want the light and glitter,' she protested. 'That's all there is in life. There can't be anything wrong in wanting to have things warm.'

'Things will still be warm.'

'How?'

'Things will warm themselves from you.'

Luella looked at him, startled.”
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