“The labourer is worthy of his hire.... Our Church....”
“You call it a church, do you? And you are short of cash. There are not enough silly women, half-witted men. You want money....”
“For the promulgation of our tenets.” She interrupted. “Yes, we need money for that, for the regeneration of the world.”
“And to keep your own house going.”
“Your insults do not touch me. I am uplifted from them. Nothing touches the true believer.”
Margaret called him over to her and whispered:
“Find out whether James knows anything of this or whether she is acting on her own; what she really wants. I can’t talk to her.”
Mrs. Roope went on talking and spluttering out texts.
“Cannot you see that Mrs. Capel is ill?” he said angrily.
The Christian Healer was quick to take the opening he gave her.