I'm coming back sure. I know a little about weighing
groceries and I've decided to come back and go into business."
"What good will your book larnin' do you then?"
"For one thing, they teach something besides dead languages in
colleges nowadays. I studied moral philosophy, which points out the
difference between right and wrong, between honesty and dishonesty,
between fifteen ounces of butter and one ounce of wood and paper, and
sixteen ounces of butter to the pound."
With this parting shot, Quincy joined Tom in front of the store and
they started for Boston, from which port the _Gallia_ was to sail two
days later.
CHAPTER XXII
ALICE'S DREAM
"Do you believe in dreams, Aunt Ella?"
"No, Alice, I do not."
"Not if they come true?"
"Only a coincidence. If they don't come true are you willing to
acknowledge that all are unreliable? Or, if some prove true do you
consider them all reliable? You can have either horn of the dilemma."
"What causes dreams, Aunt Ella?"
"Usually what's on your mind. Your brain doesn't wake up all at once
and dreams flit through it until it gets full control."
"What if a person dreams the same thing three nights in succession?"
"That proves nothing. When my first husband died I dreamed for a
month or more that he was still alive and that I must wake him at a
certain time because the morning he died he was to take a train at an
early hour.
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