"Of course I do. Does he still have all those Greeners coming to ask him questions?"
"Oh, yes. Their piety is just the same as ever."
"They're poor," observed David. "It's always those poorest in worldly goods who are richest in religion."
"Well, isn't that a compensation?" returned Hannah, with a little sigh. "But from my father's point of view, the truth is rather that those who have most pecuniary difficulties have most religious difficulties."
"Ah, I suppose they come to your father as much to solve the first as the second."
"Father is very good," she said simply.
They had by this time obtained something to eat, and for a minute or so the dialogue became merely dietary.
"Do you know," he said in the course of the meal, "I feel I ought not to have told you what a wicked person I am? I put my foot into it there, too."
"No, why?"
"Because you are Reb Shemuel's daughter."