Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-- that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.

The speaker celebrates ambition not as restless dissatisfaction but as a sustaining source of vitality. Ambitions “glittering higher up” suggest a horizon that continually recedes: achievement is pleasurable, yet its greatest gift is that it reveals further possibilities. The passage frames aspiration as an engine of curiosity and narrative momentum—life stays “interesting” because desire keeps reimagining the self and the future. In Montgomery’s fiction, this attitude often aligns with youthful idealism: the world is made larger by imagination, and goals—however small or grand—become a way to resist stagnation and to turn ordinary experience into a purposeful, unfolding story.