A line more, and he signed the firm name with an unusually fine
flourish.
"There! I've accomplished one letter. What do you want to do, Flossy?"
"I want Mr. Ried to have a room where he can invite one of my boys
occasionally, and make him comfortable, and do for him what we cannot
with our rooms; do for him what only a young man can do for a young man.
I don't clearly know what I want further than that, but I see that one
thing as a stepping-stone. Remember, I want all your thousands to have
just as pleasant rooms, and I would like to help to bring it about, but
I don't just now see the way."
"Do you see the way to this?"
"No, but doesn't it seem as though we ought to be able to accomplish so
much?"
"It does, certainly. What is your desire, Flossy? Do you want him to
have a room in our house?"
She shook her head.
"No, that would not further my plan for those boys. I would like to have
him here, and it would be a good thing for him,--at least I think it
would; but I can see things which he could accomplish for these young
men, set by himself, in a different part of the city. Besides, Evan, I
have other plans for our rooms, entirely different ones, and some of
them I am afraid you will think are very strange.
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