“That’s true!” said Filomena.
“And Father Thomas says,” continued Avice, “that we must all go to our Lord just like little children, ready to take what He sees good for us, and telling Him all our needs of body and soul, as a child would tell its mother.”
They were walking slowly up Steephill when Avice said this.
“Father Thomas has one apt scholar,” said the priest’s unexpected voice behind her. “But it was a Greater than I, my daughter, who told His disciples that ‘whosoever did not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, should in no wise enter therein.’”
Note 1. A mark was 13 shillings 4 pence, and was the largest piece of money then known.
The End.
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