"That is not what they want with him either."
"Indeed, what is it then?"
"You know just as well as I do, Edward, and it is for your own sake I beg you not to scoff at earnest and loving people."
"I have no wish to scoff; I only say that they can spare themselves the trouble, and spare him too."
"He is too cold."
"Cold or warm, such things depend on one's disposition and manner of living."
"But people can live themselves into a state of coldness of the soul, and that is what he has done."
"May-be; but I know somebody who is warm enough, and who thinks exactly in the same way as Kristen Larssen. So it is not that."
"Well, what is it, then?"
"Thousands of things. She whom I allude to always puts her thoughts into pictures, and from the time she saw a very old drawing of the Trinity, a large body with three heads, and heard that the head in the middle was son to the two at the sides, the father and mother (for you know that the Holy Ghost began by being a woman), from that time she never could believe in the Trinity; she laughed at it. And as I said before, she is warm enough."