"In her new conception of the truth, that is the way she argues."
"By Jove, Mr. Howard, I'm going to join them! I wonder if she would let me go to church with her next Sunday?"
"I'm sure she would."
But, as he turned away, Mr. Howard shook his head and said to himself: "Carolina will have to tell him what she told Noel,--of the futility of attempting to be a Scientist for the sake of the loaves and fishes."
But, indeed, Carolina had not only believed it, but, with her Bible and "Science and Health" on her knees, during the hour of the interview she had made her demonstration, so that she knew it without words. She felt it by the uplift in her own heart and the nearness of her own soul to the Infinite, so that, when Mr. Howard appeared with a beaming face to tell her, the radiance on Carolina's admonished him that she knew already.
"But you don't know all, young lady! After I had left his office, the colonel came post-haste after me to say that his sister and the children are to leave to-morrow for Whitehall, his brother-in-law's estate, which lies some twelve miles from Guildford, but northeast from Enterprise, the little station, where you leave the railroad, and Miss Yancey is going to call on you and Mrs. Winchester this evening, to invite you to make Whitehall your headquarters until you can establish yourself elsewhere."
"Oh, how kind of them!" said Carolina.
"Then y-you will accept?" demanded Kate, in old-thought surprise.
"Why, what could possibly be better?" asked Carolina, in new-thought simplicity and gratitude.
"T-ten to one on Colonel Yancey!" murmured Kate in her father's ear as they turned away.