But even the wretched people who set their hearts on making money, begin by saving the first penny they can, and then the next and the next.

And they have their reward: they get the riches they want--with the loss of their souls to be sure, but that they did not think of.

The people on the other hand who want to be noble and good, begin by taking the first thing that comes to their hand and doing that right, and so they go on from one thing to another, growing better and better.
In the same way, although it would have been absurd in Willie to rack his brain for some scheme by which to restore such a grand building as the Priory, he could yet bethink himself that the hundredth room did not come next the first, neither did the third; the one after the first was the second, and he might do something towards the existence of that.
He went out immediately after breakfast, and began peering about the ruins to see where the second room might be.

To his delight he saw that, with a little contrivance, it could be built on the other side of the wall of Hector's room.
He had plenty of money for it, his grannie's legacy not being yet touched.

He thought it all over himself, talked it all over with his father, and then consulted it all over with Spelman.