26/59 My lines never ran that way." "Was father very religious when he was young ?" "No, I can't say that he was. But then we never got on, your father and I.Our lines didn't run together at all. But I shouldn't have called him a religious man." "Then all this time father has been lying ?" Her uncle gazed at her apprehensively. He did not wish to undermine her faith in her father on the very day after his death, but he was so ignorant about her, her thoughts and beliefs and desires, that he did not know what her idea of her father had been. His idea of him had always been that he was a dirty, miserly scoundrel, but that was not quite the thing for a daughter to feel, and there was an innocence and simplicity about Maggie that perplexed him. |