“But what else did you mean?” she asked.
“Ay me!” said Mrs Dorothy, as if to herself. “How do men misunderstand God! Child, wert thou never taught the first and great commandment? ‘Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy mind, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength?’”
“Oh, of course,” said Gatty, as if she were listening to some scientific formula about a matter wherein she was not at all concerned.
“Have you done that, my dear?”
“Done what?” demanded Gatty in a startled tone.
“Have you loved God with all your heart?”
Gatty looked as if she had been suddenly roused from sleep, and was unable to take in the circumstances.
“I don’t know! I—I suppose, so.”
“You suppose so! Dear child, how can you love any, and not know it?”
“But that is quite another sort of love!” cried Gatty.