Coughing a cough of nervous embarrassment, he again glanced at the document before him.
"Of course," he said--"if you wish it, there is not the slightest objection to your making this--this public statement as to your religious convictions.

It does not affect the disposal of your worldly goods in any way.

It used--yes, it used to be quite the ordinary way of beginning a Last Will and Testament--but we have got beyond any special commendation of our souls to God, you know----" "Oh yes, I quite understand that," rejoined Helmsley.

"Present-day people like to think that God takes no interest whatever in His own creation.

It's a more comfortable doctrine to believe that He is indifferent rather than observant.