Maggie Delafield was passive for the time being, because that which would make her active was no more than a tiny seedling in her heart.

This first stage never infects a young seedling direct, but gives rise to secondary spores, or sporida, from which infection threads may arise and penetrate the shoot of a young seedling and reach the growing point.

Millions of little seedlings, however, start to grow in the forest each year, but only a small number survive and become large trees.

And if "beauty born of murmuring sound shall pass into" its "face," how much more subtly shall the grave strength of peace, the sunshine of hope and sweet content, thrill the delicate chords of being, and warm the tender seedling into richer life.