“Very well, ma’am. I shall be most happy.”
Mrs. Elton left the room. Lady Emily said:
“Read something to me, Margaret.”
“What shall I read?”
“Anything you like.”
Margaret got a Bible, and read to her one of her father’s favourite chapters, the fortieth of Isaiah.
“I have no right to trust in God, Margaret.”
“Why, my lady?”
“Because I do not feel any faith in him; and you know we cannot be accepted without faith.”
“That is to make God as changeable as we are, my lady.”