"Yes, with us. And it was the same way all over the country, because, really, there are lots and lots of noble, unselfish women like Mrs. Chester, who want everyone to be happy."
"Is she as pretty as you, Miss Eleanor?"
"Much prettier, Zara; but you won't think about that after you've talked to her. She got hold of me and some of the other girls like me, who had lots of time and money, and she made us see that we'd be twice as happy if we spent some of our time doing things for other people, instead of thinking about ourselves the whole time. And she's been perfectly right."
"I knew you enjoyed doing things like that—"
"Yes; so you see it isn't altogether unselfish, after all. But Mrs. Chester says that we ought all try to be happy ourselves, because that's the best way to make other people happy, after all, as long as we never forget that there are others, and that we ought to think of serving them."
"That's like in the Bible where it says, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive,' isn't it?"
"That's the very idea, Bessie! I'm glad you thought of that yourself. That's just the lesson we've all got to learn."
"But we haven't been able to help anyone yet, Miss Eleanor. Everyone's helping us—"
"Don't you worry about that, Bessie. You'll have lots of chances to help others—ever so many! Just you wait until you get to the city. There are lots of girls there who are more wretched than you—girls who don't get enough to eat, and have to work so hard that they never have any fun at all, because when they get through with their work they're so tired they have to go right to sleep."
"Bessie was like that, Miss Eleanor."