t,--Emily, don't.'

"Finally Emily spoke. 'You are as mean and hateful as you can be,
Rodney Carter,' she said, burrowing more deeply into his shoulder.
'And I despise you. And I am going to marry you, too, just to get even
with you. Give me back my engagement ring.' Rodney ecstatically did.
The touch of her lovely, material body must have thrilled him, for he
kissed her all over the top of the head, her face being hidden.

"I stood my ground. I was looking for literary material since I never
have a chance to make romance for myself. Emily spoke again.

"'I know now that the Vast Infinite intends us for each other. I have
been dwelling in Perfect Harmony the last four days, trusting the All
Perfection to bring us together again. So I know that our union was
decreed from the foundation by the Universal sphere. I tell you, Rod,
you can't get ahead of the Infinite.'

"Then I went to my own room, and they never knew when I left,--they
didn't even remember I had been there. But as I came back from
answering the phone at eleven o'clock, I met Rod in the hall. He had
some books in his hand. He ducked them behind him when he saw me. I
reached for them sternly, and he pulled them out rather sheepishly. I
read the titles, 'Spheral Mentality,' 'Infinite Spheres,' 'Spheral
Harmony.'

"'Made me promise to read 'em, too,' he confided in a whisper. 'And by
George, she is worth it.'

"Oh, I tell you, Carol, these boarding-houses are chuck full of
literary material. Really, I am developing. I know it. I feel it
every day. I rub elbows with every one I meet, and I like it. I don't
care if they aren't 'My Kind' at all. I am learning to reach down to
the same old human nature back of all the different kinds. Isn't that
growth?

"You asked about the millionaire's son. He still comes to see me every
once in a while. He says he can't promise to let me spend all of his
millions for missions if I marry him,--says he has too much fun
spending them on himself,--but he insists that I may do whatever I like
with him. Isn't it too bad I can't feel called upon to take him in
hand?

"Anyhow, if I had a million dollars do you know what I would do? Buy
an orphans' home, and dump 'em all in a big ship and go sailing,
sailing over the bounding main. I'd kidnap Julia and take her along.

"He was here last week, and sent his love to you, and best wishes to
David. He told me to ask particularly how your complexion gets