"Did he join the Church?" asked Hollis,
"He hasn't yet."
"It is easier for girls to be good than for boys," rejoined Hollis in an argumentative tone,
"Is it? I don't see how."
"Of course you don't. We are in the world where the temptations are; what temptations do you have?"
"I have enough. But I don't want to go out in the world where more temptations are. Don't you know—" She colored and stopped,
"Know what?"
"About Christ praying that his disciples might be kept from the evil that was in the world, not that they might be taken out of the world. They have got to be in the world."
"Yes."
"And," she added sagely, "anybody can be good where no temptations are."