She replied in a phrase which had rested in her mind, though probably conveying little if any meaning to her.
"He came to make us free from sin." "And so we should rejoice at His coming.

But would it please Him, do you think, to see us showing our joy by indulging in those very sins from which He came to free us ?" Maud looked with puzzled countenance.
"Is it a sin to like cake and sweet things, aunt ?" The gravity of the question brought a smile to Miss Bygrave's close, strong lips.
"Listen, Maud," she said, "and I will tell you what I mean.

For you to like such things is no sin, as long as you are still too young to have it explained to you why you should overcome that liking.

As I said, you are now old enough to begin to think of more than a child's foolishness, to ask yourself what is the meaning of the life which has been given you, what duties you must set before yourself as you grow up to be a woman.

When once these duties have become clear to you, when you understand what the end of life is, and how you should seek to gain it, then many things become sinful which were not so before, and many duties must be performed which previously you were not ready for." Miss Bygrave spoke with effort, as if she found it difficult to express herself in sufficiently simple phraseology.