"And so will I," she went on. "And I'll try to remember, too, that perhaps it was put here for us to see and think of when we need encouragement—just as, I dare say, we are left behind, sometimes, so that other lonely folk may see us and be reminded that——" She stopped.
"That what?" he asked.
"Why!" she cried, "it's the Secret! The more you live, the more everything helps you to believe the Secret and to feel the brotherhood it brings."
He looked guilty. "I don't deserve to know the Secret," he said, "after last night. But——"
"But I am going to tell you," she declared, "so when you're far away from what you love most, or when you're with people you think are different from you and do not understand, you can remember——"
"Yes?" eagerly.
"Just remember—and you've no idea how it helps until you've tried—that everybody's lonesome. That's the Secret."