"O, do you ask that? When he is Love itself, and would have the very best things for each one of us?"
"We don't have them, I am sure."
"Because we will not, then. To have them, we must fall in with his plans."
"My dear Lois, do you know that you are talking the profoundest mysteries?"
"No. They are not mysteries to me. The Bible says all I have been saying."
"That is sufficient for you, and you do not stop to look into the mystery. Lois, it is all mystery. Look at all the wretched ruined lives one sees; what becomes of those plans for good for them?"
"Failed, Mrs. Barclay; because of the people's unwillingness to come into the plans."
"They do not know them!"
"No, but they do know the steps which lead into them, and those steps they refuse to take."
"I do not understand you. What steps?"