"Why, I couldn't be a Christian if I wouldn't!"
"You are getting absurd!" he cried. But he did not look exactly as if he thought it.
"Absurd!" repeated Mary. "Isn't that what makes him our Saviour? How could I be his disciple, if I wouldn't do as he did?"
"You are saying a good deal!"
"Can't you see that I have no choice?"
"I wouldn't do that for anybody under the sun!"
"You are not his disciple. You have not been going about with him."
"And you have?"
"Yes—for many years. Besides, I can not help thinking there is one for whom you would do it."
"If you mean my wife, you never were more mistaken. I would do nothing of the sort."