No one will take
her to work, so she couldn't think what she could do with herself all
summer. Last night when you went in to bed I kept on thinking about her
and about what our Camp Fire may mean some day when we are older and
stronger ourselves and understand more about it. Of course no one wants
to be done good to, that is horrid and patronizing, but everybody wants
to be made happier, rich people: and poor people too. Remember how you
once said that Wohelo, Work, Health and. Love, solved all life's
difficulties.
"Wohelo means love. We love Love, for love is life, and light and joy
and sweetness, And love is comradeship and motherhood, and fatherhood,
and all dear Kinship. Love is the joy of kinship so deep that self is
forgotten."
"Now I wonder if comradeship and kinship really mean just caring about
the people we would have had to care about anyway, our own friends or
our own family?"
Having unconsciously touched upon one of the biggest questions in the
world and having no answer, the two girls were both silent for a moment.
Then Polly added in a surrender unusual to her:
"Don't worry, Betty, perhaps you are, right after all. Nobody can live
up to all the things we preach. Anyhow it was, good of you to ask Miss
Martha to let Nan spend the day with us.
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