Faith felt sorry for him when he could not join the boys in a game of hockey, but his spirits were good, and Sir George took him and Faith to see a small museum of curiosities, which interested them greatly.
He gave them each a small Roman coin with a hole pierced through, and told them that it was used in the time when our Lord was in the Holy Land.
"Do you think," said Faith, "that it could possibly be that Jesus Christ had this in His own Hand. Could He, do you think?"
"I shouldn't like to say," said Sir George.
When Faith got home, she put her coin in a little box which she kept carefully locked, and every night she would open it and finger it lovingly.
Charity warned her against making an idol of it.
Faith asked how a piece of money could be an idol.
"Anything is an idol if you worship it, or love it better than God," said Charity, with her superior air.
"But I don't worship it, and I only love it because it might have belonged to Jesus."
"I think that's very irreverent," said Charity.