I'm a Christian woman.

I was convicted and converted when I wasn't but twelve years old, and I know my religion.

Tom--he wasn't no Christian, he didn't ever experience a change of heart: it was always like as if he was just going to be converted, when he wasn't in drink; fer he was good in his heart, Tom was.

But he wasn't no Christian, an' I'm not sayin' he isn't lost.
I'm only sayin',"-- this with a sudden passion, and knotting her tremulous hands hard together,--"I'm only sayin' I can't love God no more! Him havin' all the power--and then look at Tom an' me"-- Helen tried to speak, but Mrs.Davis would not listen.

"No," she cried, "yer the preacher's wife, but I must say it.