But why ?" "Why?
It's going to be the great thing of the future.

There never was anything like it!" His voice grew warm and his glance scintillated.

And now Hilda understood her mother's account of his persuasiveness; she felt the truth of that odd remark that he could talk the hind leg off a horse.
"But does it lead to anything ?" she inquired, with her strong sense of intrinsic values.
"I should say it did!" he answered.

"It leads to everything! There's nothing it won't lead to! It's the key of the future.

You'll see.