I do want to be one of his slaves, if I may." "_May!_ my child?
You are bound to be.

You have no choice but choose it.

It is what we are made for--freedom, the divine nature, God's life, a grand, pure, open-eyed existence! It is what Christ died for.

You must not talk about _may;_ it is all _must._" Mary had never heard her father talk like this, and, notwithstanding the endless interest of his words, it frightened her.

An instinctive uneasiness crept up and laid hold of her.