“Then you say there are more seeds than are required?”
“How could I, when I do not know what they are required for? How can I tell that it is not necessary for the life of the tree that it should produce them all, and necessary too for the ground to receive so much life-rent from the tree!”
“But you must admit that some things are lost!”
“Yes, surely!” answered Donal. “Why else should he come and look till he find?”
No such answer had the theologian expected; she was not immediate with her rejoinder.
“But some of them are lost after all!” she said.
“Doubtless; there are sheep that will keep running away. But he goes after them again.”
“He will not do that for ever!”
“He will.”
“I do not believe it.”