`` You 'll be a fine lady -- oh , all the better for that perhaps -- but you 'll not be the same . No , no , the new life will change you ; not all at once , maybe , but in the end . You 'll be one of them , not one of us . But will you be happy ? That 's the question I 'm asking . '' In anyone else Nora would have resented this . But she never felt angry with Rob . `` I think I shall be , '' she said thoughtfully . `` And , anyway , I must go . It does n't seem as if I could help myself if I wanted to . Something -- out beyond there -- is calling me , always has been calling me ever since I was a tiny girl and found out there was a big world far away from Racicot . And it always seemed to me that I would find a way to it some day . That was why I kept going to school long after the other girls stopped . Mother thought I 'd better stop home ; she said too much book learning would make me discontented and too different from the people I had to live along . But Father let me go ; he understood ; he said I was like him when he was young . I learned everything and read everything I could . It seems to me as if I had been walking along a narrow pathway all my life . And now it seems as if a gate were opened before me and I can pass through into a wider world . It is n't the luxury and the pleasure or the fine house and dresses that tempt me , though the people here think so -- even Mother thinks so . But it is not .
It 's just that something seems to be in my grasp that I 've always longed for , and I must go -- Rob , I must XXXXX . ''
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