"It will not be unhealthy, when the railroad is finished."
"I am afraid it will, for some time. And it is too rough a place for you."
"That is why they want me the more."
"Miss Lois, you are not strong enough."
"I am very strong!" she answered, with a delicious smile.
"But there is such a thing—don't you think so?—as fitness of means to ends. You would not take a silver spade to break ground with?"
"I am not at all a silver spade," said Lois. "But if I were; suppose I had no other?"
"Then surely the breaking ground must be left to a different instrument."
"That won't do," said Lois, shaking her head. "The instrument cannot choose, you know, where it will be employed. It does not know enough for that."
"But it made you ill, that work."