"Unquestionably one of the most refined ways known of tickling one's
little vanity.... How full of good deeds you are these days. You're
thinking of the poor again, I'm right?"

"I must have been. There's nobody else who'd take money from you, is
there?"

"Oh, isn't there? I must introduce you to high finance some day."

"Well," said Carlisle, "I meant just to give it away--to anybody--just
to show how free and superior you are, or something.... Silly, isn't it?
What's your happiness rule, Hugo?"

He replied with the readiness of a man who has been over this path long
ago:

"To have the capacity to want things very much, and the ability to get
them."

And he squeezed the little hand he held, as if to say that he had both
wanted much and gotten much.

Carlisle was much struck with this rule, which she now saw to have been
her own and mamma's all their lives long. After duly complimenting Hugo
upon it, she said:

"Here's another one, a man told me once: 'Cultivate your sympathies all
the time, and do something useful.'"