THE HOUSE THAT NONE GOES INTO 45 
one has only to step in and ask for them, and the angel 
will open the vase and shed the essence that is inside 
it into his very heart. But—is it not funny ?—hardly 
anybody ever goes into that house, and the few who do 
cannot persuade others to follow them. I will tell you 
why this is. The beautiful house does not /ook like a 
beautiful house at all to most people, and the angel 
of light who sits in the open doorway seems to them 
to be only a shabbily dressed, unfashionable sort of 
person. Nobody sees his wings, or, if they do, they 
think wings are vulgar and out of date. It is the 
demon who is to blame for this. He has had time 
to blow his magic powders all about the world, and 
they have blinded people’s eyes and made what is 
really beautiful seem mean and ugly to them—for 
the demon’s powders can blind the eyes as well as 
freeze the heart. But the little workshop of the 
demon, which is really as mean and wretched a place 
as you could find, #ha¢ people think glorious and beau- 
tiful, and his ugly bottles are to them as vases of crystal 
and diamond. So they crowd about the demon’s 
workshop, thinking it to be the angel’s house, and 
into the angel’s house they never go, for they think a 
demon—or at least an unfashionably dressed person 
with wings—which are out of date—lives there. 
Now, it is one of those bottles with the false labels 
which the demon takes when he wants one of his 
