Besides, don't we know well enough that the folks who are most particular about those sort of things don't mind swindling and setting their houses on fire and all manner of abominations?
I wouldn't be a Christian for the world, but I should like to see a little more common-sense introduced into our religion; it ought to be more up to date.

If ever I marry, I should like my wife to be a girl who wouldn't want to keep anything but the higher parts of Judaism.

Not out of laziness, mind you, but out of conviction." David stopped suddenly, surprised at his own sentiments, which he learned for the first time.

However vaguely they might have been simmering in his brain, he could not honestly accuse himself of having ever bestowed any reflection on "the higher parts of Judaism" or even on the religious convictions apart from the racial aspects of his future wife.

Could it be that Hannah's earnestness was infecting him?
"Oh, then you _would_ marry a Jewess!" said Hannah.
"Oh, of course," he said in astonishment.