whirring and making things—and everything is pouring in to that one wonderful place. And men and women planned it, you know—just men and women. And if we live a few years we shall be men and women; and they were once children like us—only—if they had been quite like us, they would never have known enough to do anything."
"But when they were children like us," said Robin, "they did not know what they would have learned by this time, and they never dreamed about this."
"That shows how wonderful men and women are," said Meg. "I believe they can do anything, if they set their minds to it"; and she said it stubbornly.
"Perhaps they can," said Robin slowly. "Perhaps we could do anything we set our minds to."
There was the suggestive tone in his voice which Meg had been thrilled by more than once before. She had been thrilled by it most strongly when he had said that if they saved their dollar a week they might be able to go almost anywhere. Unconsciously she responded to it now.
"If I could do anything I set my mind to," she said, "do you know what I would set my mind to first?"
"What?"
"I would set my mind to going to that wonderful
