'No,' I replied; 'but I don't like it.'
'I am surprised. There is such a decided religious tone in it that I thought it would just suit you.'
'It is just that tone I don't like. It represents some of the Bible truths so unfairly.'
'In what way?'
'In speaking of God's justice——'
'Please explain,' she said, as I faltered.
'Justice is not cruelty, Miss Rayner. I suppose he holds the same views that so many seem to hold. And even in novels now that you get at a circulating library you constantly come across the same thing—a kind of contempt for the "old, narrow doctrines," as they call them, bringing down God's standard to theirs, and condemning what they cannot understand.'
Miss Rayner laughed.
'You are getting hot over their iniquities. I did not know you were such a critical young person.'
'I can't bear the Bible being made light of,' I said. 'They cut away and put their own interpretation on the most solemn truths. Do you agree with this man, Miss Rayner?'