But I used to be a teacher, and I came here when this place was mostly woods, with my dear husband.

Then after he died, through the long years of poverty and struggle, I would read of the place and the wonderful meetings, but I could never afford to come.

Then when John began to work and made good so fast I was dizzy half the time with his successes, I didn't think about the place.

But lately, since I've had everything else I could think of, something possessed me to come back here, and take a suite among the women and men who are teaching our young people so wonderfully; and to sail on the lake, and hear the lectures, and dream my youth over again.

I think that was it most of all, to dream my youth over again, to try to relive the past." "There now, you have told me all about it," said Kate, stroking the white forehead in an effort to produce drowsiness, "close your eyes and go to sleep." "I haven't even BEGUN to tell you," said the woman perversely.