“No, we should scarcely have met, but for their marriage: certainly you would not have come to live with us.”
“I’m glad she did,” Maimie said.
“It has all been so lovingly ordered for us up to this time,” I said, after a little pause. “We would not undo any of it if we could, even of what seemed trying at the time. Maimie, don’t you think we ought to trust still our Father’s care, and to believe that He certainly will still arrange for us as is really best?”
“That is just what I was thinking,” Cherry said.
Maimie looked seriously at me. “Yes; only things often do come as one doesn’t like.”
“As we do not like, perhaps,” I said, “but still as is really best. For, after all, we can’t see far with our short sight. When you first came to live with us, neither you nor I saw the arrangement to be 'best,’ yet we would not undo it now.”
“Wouldn’t you really?”
“Don’t you know better than to ask that question?” I said. “Maimie, I think we must take a lesson from the past. God always deals lovingly with His children, even when He sends things which at first they cannot see to be best.”
“I’ll try. I will try,” said Maimie gently. “I will try to trust.”
“And not be afraid,” added Cherry.