"I am truly sorry, dear father. For that I am truly sorry. But, thou seest, I could not help it. It is wrong to offer flowers and prayers to the gods."
"To whom then wouldst thou offer them?"
"We should bow only to the true God."
"And he? Who is he? Where is he?"
"He is the one invisible and mighty, the God of Heaven and of all men."
"That is Jupiter, the all-powerful."
"It is not Jupiter, it is our God, as revealed in the Lord Jesus
Christ."
"A malefactor."
Virgilia smiled.
"Crucified for us," she murmured, "that we might have eternal life. He sitteth now on the right hand of God.".