Not to have ill things said of her and of hers, not to be disgraced, not to be rendered incapable of some human effort, not to have actually to starve,--such was the extent of her ambition in this world.

And for the next,--she felt so assured of the goodness of God that she could not bring herself to doubt of happiness in a world that was to be eternal.

Her doubt was this, whether it was really the next world which would be eternal.

Of eternity she did not doubt;--but might there not be many worlds?
These things, however, she kept almost entirely to herself.

"You down!" Priscilla had said.
"Well, yes; I could not sleep when I heard you all moving.