He said to Billy Green, "Your chest is locked, and the key is lost in the bottom of the sea." The brethren were gratified that the power of this "soul-sleeping" delusion was broken.

Billy Green never recovered from his infatuation.
He afterwards built a house that, in the number of rooms it contained, was wholly beyond his necessities.

But he thought that when the Lord should come, and he should own all the land that joined him, and should have children to his heart's desire, then he would need all the room..