If she'd told him of her secret dream to live in a house with a garden, would he have agreed?

The secret dream of humanity: the return to the Earth.

Even though he claims it's unlike himself, his secret dream is to become an owner of a shop to make people happy.

How could she, with her education, have secret dreams or hopes?

A world everyone longs to re- turn to, in their most secret dreams.

In a secret dream, she imagined that he would tell her it was not true.

Almost like secret dreams a bored sea captain might have, wasn't it?

He was being told to go live his secret dreams, with pay.

And never once had she shared her secret dream that I might even be a preacher.

This man who was most likely, of all men, to repeat Calvin's secret dream to others.