But I always say my prayers every night and morning." Traill smiled at her gently.

"That's all right," he said; "churches are nothing, only monuments that fulfil the double purpose of reminding the more forgetful of us that there are a class of people who believe in things they can't prove, and that also provide employment for those who have to look after them.

I don't pray myself, but I should think it's the nearest thing you can get to in a combination of religion and common sense.

Is that kettle boiling, do you think?
Looks like it.

Oh, of course, I ought to have known you were religious." "Why ?" "Do you remember the way you took that impoverished joke of mine about the occupants of the kingdom of heaven ?" She laughed lightly at the recollection.