“Does she ever feel sorry?”
“Sometimes; but it can't last where the Bible is.”
“I never saw that the Bible had anything to do with us,” said Eloise.
“Why—ee!” Jewel suddenly dropped Anna Belle and again took up the Bible.
“What do you think I opened to?” holding the verse with her finger as she looked up. Then she read, “'If ye love them that love you what thank have ye?' Now isn't that something to do with you and grandpa?”
“I don't see how I can love people who don't choose to be lovable,” returned Eloise. “What's the use of pretending?”
“But then,” said the child, “the trouble is that everything that isn't love is hate.”
Her visitor raised her eyebrows. “Ah! I should have to think about that,” she returned.
“Yes, you'd better,” agreed Jewel. Then she turned to the Psalms and read the ninety-first.
When she had finished she looked up at her cousin, an earnest questioning in her eyes.