"I am very glad you are well," said Georgie wildly. He was greatly
impressed, but much embarrassed. Also it was so hard to talk at a
second-story window with any sense of ease, especially when you had to
address a total stranger of extraordinary sanctity from Benares.

Luckily Mrs Quantock came to the assistance of his embarrassment.

"Guru dear, are you coming down to see us?" she asked.

"Beloved lady, no!" said the level voice. "It is laid on me to wait
here. It is the time of calm and prayer when it is good to be alone. I
will come down when the guides bid me. But teach our dear friend what I
have taught you. Surely before long I will grasp his earthly hand, but
not now. Peace! Peace! and Light!"

"Have you got some Guides as well?" asked Georgie when the Guru
disappeared from the window. "And are they Indians too?"

"Oh, those are his spiritual guides," said Mrs Quantock, "He sees them
and talks to them, but they are not in the body."

She gave a happy sigh.

"I never have felt anything like it," she said. "He has brought such an
atmosphere into the house that even Robert feels it, and doesn't mind
being turned out of his dressing-room. There, he has shut the window.
Isn't it all marvellous?"

Georgie had not seen anything particularly marvellous yet, except the