"Well, that is true, Kate," replied Grace more soberly. "I don't believe anybody takes the question seriously enough. It is certainly the most important of all things to consider." "Do you think it right to enter marriage for any other reason than pure and devoted affection?" persisted Kate. "No, I do not. Why do you ask?" demanded Grace rather sharply. "Because that is the solution of the whole problem. If they would begin to talk about love instead of marriage being a failure, they would get some light on it," a little impatiently. Grace looked up in surprise. "I know," continued Kate, "it is because people are mistaken or misled in their reasons for marriage, that it even has a semblance of failure." "That is one reason, certainly, and another is that they do not understand each other's motives, or have not the patience to bear with each other's faults. We can easily see how misunderstandings can be put away when there is true love, when we determine to see only the good, and learn to 'resist not evil.' That is one of the strong points in Jesus the Christ's teachings," said Grace with unwonted earnestness. "I am so sorry people can't see it in the right light," added Kate, regretfully. "You can have much charity for them, for it is just what you would have said or thought, if you had not studied the matter yourself. You remember how Mr. Narrow influenced you and biased your judgment?" "Yes, and I see as never before that the 'Truth makes us free.' 'He is a freeman whom the truth makes free. And all are slaves besides,'" said Grace, as she reached for the sketch book to look over her work of the afternoon. "It is no use, she never will say anything, even when she might," thought Kate as she reviewed the events of the past few days. She half reproached herself for allowing anything to take her mind from the one special theme in which at last she had become thoroughly interested. She was eager to learn, to search in all directions for the meaning of things. Slowly the little grain of faith was growing into the mighty tree. Enchanting Truth so round, so perfect, so beautiful,--no wonder we must reach out in every direction for the knowledge of thy fair signs that we may more correctly and more fully realize the perfect revealment of our own divinity. CHAPTER XXVIII. "What a great power is the power of thought! And what a grand being is man when he uses it aright; because after all, it is the use made of it that is the important thing. Character comes out of thought. 'As a man thinketh in his heart, so he is.'"--_Sir Walter Raleigh._ "MARLOW, October ----. "Dear Husband: I was just thinking of you all when the letter carrier came this morning and gave me a welcome surprise, for your letters usually come in the afternoon. It seems too wonderful to believe about the children, and yet I can see it is their implicit faith that makes their words so potent.