"I mean just what I say. We can get anything, if we have sufficient will-power to build a way right straight to it." "Suppose I want to marry a millionaire?" "It would mean a lot of well-directed effort, and the effort would slowly train you to want something much better than to live rich and idle." Jane paused a minute, and Emily looked at her curiously. "If you want to marry a millionaire bad enough to start in and make yourself all over new, you'll have such control over your future that I think you'll get something much better than a millionaire." "I never heard any one like you in all my life," said Emily Mead. "I'd be so glad to help you straight along," Jane said. "I've got two books with me, and you can read one and then the other. Then you'll get where you can get the meaning out of the Bible, and then you'll begin to see the meaning of everything. The world gets so wonderful. You see miracles everywhere. You feel so well. The sun shines so bright. Life becomes so lovely." Emily looked at her with real wonder. "How did you happen to come here?" she asked. "Oh, that came long after all the rest of the story. One day I remembered that my mother had two sisters, and I wrote to them. My letter arrived just as Aunt Matilda's arm began to trouble her, and she asked me if I could come for a visit. You see that was another opportunity I evolved." Emily seized her hand impulsively. "I'm so glad that you came. I'm going to try, and you'll help me?" "Yes, indeed, I will. Would you like one of the books right now?" "Oh, I should." "I'll get it for you, and then I'll tell you some day about the doctor I met and his Sunshine Order." They went towards the house. "You mustn't expect to understand everything right off, you know," Jane said to her gently. "You see this is all new to you, and that means that you can't any more understand right off than you could paint a picture right off. You have to learn gradually." "But I mean to learn," said Emily. They went in the door, and Jane ran upstairs and fetched the book. "There!" she said, "you read it, and I'll help you all I can. You see the thing is to learn with your whole heart to do God's will, and then, in some strange, subtle way, you get to feel what is coming and to sort of shape all. It's so fascinating and thrilling to realize that what you want is marching towards you as fast as you can march towards it." "What do you want?" Emily asked. "I want to do exactly what I'm doing," said Jane, very quietly. "I've passed wanting anything else. I want lots of chances to teach and help,--that's all." "Don't you want to marry?" "Oh, no,--I want to be able to teach and help everywhere. I don't want things for myself, somehow." "How strange!" They went into the sitting-room.