safest way to learn Madam How's methods is to watch her at work in little
corners at commonplace business, which will not astonish or frighten us,
nor put huge hasty guesses and dreams into our heads. Sir Isaac Newton,
some will tell you, found out the great law of gravitation, which holds
true of all the suns and stars in heaven, by watching an apple fall: and
even if he did not find it out so, he found it out, we know, by careful
thinking over the plain and commonplace fact, that things have weight. So
do you be humble and patient, and watch Madam How at work on little
things. For that is the way to see her at work upon all space and time.

What? you have a question more to ask?

Oh! I talked about Madam How lifting up Hartford Bridge Flat. How could
she do that? My dear child, that is a long story, and I must tell it you
some other time. Meanwhile, did you ever see the lid of a kettle rise up
and shake when the water inside boiled? Of course; and of course, too,
remember that Madam How must have done it. 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?