Then think over between this and our next talk, what that can possibly have to do with her lifting up Hartford Bridge Flat.

But you have been longing, perhaps, all this time to hear more about Lady Why, and why she set Madam How to make Bracknell's Bottom.
My dear child, the only answer I dare give to that is: Whatever other purposes she may have made it for, she made it at least for this--that you and I should come to it this day, and look at, and talk over it, and become thereby wiser and more earnest, and we will hope more humble and better people.

Whatever else Lady Why may wish or not wish, this she wishes always, to make all men wise and all men good.

For what is written of her whom, as in a parable, I have called Lady Why?
"The Lord possessed me in the beginning of His way, before His works of old.
"I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
"When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
"Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth: "While as yet He had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
"When He prepared the heavens, I was there: when He set a compass upon the face of the depth: "When He established the clouds above: when He strengthened the fountains of the deep: "When He gave to the sea His decree, that the waters should not pass His commandment: when He appointed the foundations of the earth: "Then I was by Him, as one brought up with Him: and I was daily His delight, rejoicing always before Him: "Rejoicing in the habitable part of His earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.
"Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways." That we can say, for it has been said for us already.

But beyond that we can say, and need say, very little.