asked Harley at last. “I should like to be a society. I couldn’t do anything of course, but it would be nice to say I belonged to something like other boys. You said there were two kinds of members, didn’t you? What are they? Tell me again. Why couldn’t I be one of that other kind?” “Yes; we have two kinds of members,” answered Lois, unconsciously using the pronoun “we” in that connection for the first time, “active and associate, but the associate members are not much. They can’t even vote. It is just to get hold of people and make them feel that they belong, you know. A real member ought to be an active member, I should think. You see the associate members are not Christians. An associate member is a kind of a ‘half-way’ thing, anyway. Why couldn’t you be an active one?” “Why, what would I have to do? I don’t ‘act’ any. I just have to lie here and ‘be,’” said the boy, with a quiver about his mouth.
