A new vision of life had opened suddenly before her, and she felt, with the illuminating intensity of a religious conversion, that the world she had been living in was merely a fiction.
In spite of her experience she had really known nothing of life.
"Yes, a lot of 'em went hungry, but I never did," he resumed in a tone of frank congratulation.

"Sometimes, of course, I'd go without supper or breakfast, but that was nothing--that was not being really hungry, you know.

I always managed, even when I was at school, to make enough to keep satisfied.

What I minded most," he added musingly, "was not having a regular place to go home to at night, and that's why I started that lodging-house.

When you've slept in holes and on benches, and under freight cars, and hidden away in machine shops, you know there's nothing on God's earth--not a blessed thing--that can take the place of a real sure enough bed with real sure enough sheets and pillow cases on it." "But how did you come out of it?
How did you succeed?
For you have succeeded beyond your dreams, haven't you ?" "Beyond my dreams ?" He threw back his big, bright head, laughing happily.