"We must go down and see Phil's garden some day," said Miss Isabel. "He is one of my best scholars."
Phil's head was so full of thoughts that day that he hardly paid so much attention as usual, till he missed a question, a thing he had not done for a long time. Then he roused himself and gave his mind to the lesson. It was about Ananias and Sapphira.
"Now what was the sin which these unfortunate people committed?" asked Miss Isabel. "Was it in not giving up all their property?"
"Yes, ma'am," said John, giving as usual the first answer that came into his head.
"I don't think so," said Harry, "because Peter said, 'Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power?' That means, I suppose, that they had a right to give it or not as they pleased."
"Well, what was the sin then?" asked Miss Isabel, glad to see that Harry had thought about the matter.
"I don't think I quite understand," answered Harry.
"What do you think, John?"
But John did not think at all. He was not given to thinking.
"And you, Phil?"