I could not get any further with her.

She has had no trouble yet to make her listen." "By Jove! I should have thought marrying a fellow like me might have been trouble enough to make a saint of her." It was impossible to fix him to any line of thought, and Mary did not attempt it.

To move the child in him was more than all argument.
A pause followed.

"I don't love God," he said.
"I dare say not," replied Mary.

"How should you, when you don't know him ?" "Then what's to be done?
I can't very well show myself where I hate the master of the house!" "If you knew him, you would love him." "You are judging by yourself.