"I wish I had just such a house," said Willie. "I mean one of these days."
"Where will you get it?" exclaimed Gerty, much amazed at so bold a declaration.
"Oh, I shall work, and grow rich, and buy it."
"You can't; it would take a lot o' money!"
"I know it; but I can earn a lot, and I will, too. The gentleman that lives in that grand house was a poor boy when he first came to Boston; and why can't one poor boy get rich as well an another?"
"How do you suppose he got so much money?"
"I don't know how he did; there are a great many ways. Some people think it's all luck, but I guess it's as much smartness as anything."
"Are you smart?"
Willie laughed. "An't I?" said he. "If I don't turn out a rich man one of these days, you may say I an't."
"I know what I'd do if I was rich," said Gerty.