"You know whether you believe or not, don't you?"
"I know I do."
"Then what more assurance do you want?"
"But, Doctor Fenn, I want to feel it; I want to feel assured in my own heart as I have heard of other people. I can't make it seem real to me. I come back to the same place all the time," said Marion, smiling sadly.
"Don't you think that is a little bit like wanting a sign?" asked the doctor.
"I don't quite understand what you mean."
"Why, you won't believe the Lord on his simple assurance. You say, like the Jews,—
"'What sign shewest thou unto us?'
"You want him to give you more than his word. Is that using him well? Would you like it yourself?"
"But, Doctor Fenn, don't you think he does sometimes give that inward assurance, the consciousness that our sins are forgiven?"