"Have you prayed about it?"
Matilda hesitated, but finally said again, "No."
"That is another thing you can always do. The Lord understands your difficulties better than any one else can, and knows just what answer to give you."
"But—an answer? will He give it always?"
"Always provided you are perfectly willing to take it, whatever it may be; and provided you do your part."
"What is my part?"
"If I sent you to find your way along a road you did not know, where there were guide posts set up; what would be your part to do?"
"To mind the guide posts?"
"Yes, and go on as they bade you. That is not to prevent your asking somebody you meet on the road, if you are going right? Now Miss Redwood has rung her bell, and you and I must obey it."
"But, what are the guide posts, Mr. Richmond?"