The service of Christ is help. The
service of Mammon is greed.
Letty was no good correspondent: after one letter in which she
declared herself perfectly happy, and another in which she said
almost nothing, her communication ceased. Mrs. Wardour had been
in the shop again and again, but on each occasion had sought the
service of another; and once, indeed, when Mary alone was
disengaged, had waited until another was at liberty. While Letty
was in her house, she had been civil, but, as soon as she was
gone, seemed to show that she held her concerned in the scandal
that had befallen Thornwick. Once, as I have said, she met
Godfrey. It was in the fields. He was walking hurriedly, as
usual, but with his head bent, and a gloomy gaze fixed upon
nothing visible. He started when he saw her, took his hat off,
and, with his eyes seeming to look far away beyond her, passed
without a word. Yet had she been to him a true pupil; for,
although neither of them knew it, Mary had learned more from
Godfrey than Godfrey was capable of teaching. She had turned
thought and feeling into life, into reality, into creation. They
speak of the _creations_ of the human intellect, of the
human imagination! there is nothing man can do comes half so near
the making of the Maker as the ordering of his way--except one
thing: the highest creation of which man is capable, is to will
the will of the Father.
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