half-rich man? Or was he merely a poor man? At any rate, unless he gave everything away to the poor, he would find it much harder to get to heaven. The needle's eye would be too tight for him. She almost wished he were penniless poor. If one were coming to the base of it, any man was rich who was not as poor as the pooreSt. She had her qualms, when in imagination she saw her father giving away their piano and the two cows, and the capital at the bank, to the labourers of the district, so that they, the Brangwens, should be as poor as the Wherrys.

And she did not want it. She was impatient.

“Very well,” she thought, “we'll forego that heaven, that's all — at any rate the needle's eye sort.” And she dismissed the problem. She was not going to be as poor as the