‘Taking to the Church for a living.’
‘I don’t see that.’
‘Either the so-called truths it advocates are things to live and die for, or they are the veriest old wives’ fables going. Do you know who was the first to do what you are about now?’
‘No. I can’t say. I’m not up in Church history yet.’
‘It was Judas.’
I am not sure that Charley was right, but that is what he said. I was taking no part in the conversation, but listening eagerly, with a strong suspicion that Charley had been leading Home to this very point.
‘A man must live,’ said Home.
‘That’s precisely what I take it Judas said: for my part I don’t see it.’
‘Don’t see what?’
‘That a man must live. It would be a far more incontrovertible assertion that a man must die—and a more comfortable one, too.’