"H-he can’t stand it for another minute, Carolina!" cried Kate. "I am crazy to see his face when you walk in without your crutches! C-Carol, couldn’t you take an extra treatment or so, and come in without even your c-cane?" Carolina’s eyes blazed with joy at this unconscious admission on Kate’s part that she believed even that little in the new faith. For reply Carolina rose by means of the arms of her chair, and without any material aid whatsoever took half a dozen steps. "Oh, Carol! Carol!" shrieked Kate, bursting into tears. "Y-you never even limped! Oh, it’s l-like the d-days when Christ was on earth to s-see a m-miracle like that!" She seized her friend in her arms and almost lifted her from her feet. "D-do it to-night, Carolina, and we’ll knock their eye out! I’ll get the whole family together, a-a-and you j-just walk in like that! Will you?" "Yes, if you will go away and let me work over it this afternoon. And don’t tell anybody!" "Oh, certainly not! That would spoil the surprise." "I don’t mean for that reason. I mean that outsiders’ adverse thought would hinder my work. Mortal mind makes false laws." "C-could you just as well t-talk United States when you are heaving your ideas at me?" pleaded Kate. "Y-you know I’m not on to the new jargon, and I fail to connect more than half the time." As Carolina laughed, Kate nodded her head with great satisfaction. "I am glad to see that Christian Science has not destroyed your royal sense of humour," she said. "Now I’m off to let you w-work!" But when the door closed behind Kate, a prolonged sense of discouragement seized Carolina. She looked forward to the evening with dread. Kate made fun of it, Doctor Colfax was coming purposely to scoff, and she knew that she was to be made conspicuous because of her religion. She tried to walk without her cane, but her knee bent under her and she fell to the floor. Her first impulse was to burst into tears, but, as she lay there alone, too far from the bell to summon help, apparently without human aid, she fancied she heard the voice of Mrs. Goddard repeating: "For He shall give His angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone." She said this over and over to herself, and it comforted her. Then the face of Mrs. Goddard came before her mental vision, and the lovely earnestness of her voice sounded in Carolina’s ear. She remembered her last words, which now came back to her with strange and timely significance: