"Depends upon what order you keep your wishes in," said Lois. "You can have strawberries in June—and grapes in September."
"What order do you keep your wishes in?" was the next question.
"I think it best to have as few as possible."
"But that would reduce life to a mere framework of life,—if one had no wishes!"
"One can find something else to fill it up," said Lois.
"Pray what would you substitute? For with wishes I connect the accomplishment of wishes."
"Are they always connected?"
"Not always; but generally, the one are the means to the other."
"I believe I do not find it so."
"Then, pardon me, what would you substitute, Miss Lothrop, to fill up your life, and not have it a bare existence?"