"Of course you don't. Dat's why I tell you."
They all smiled at that. Signe again turned the leaves of her Bible. "Read here," said she.
This time it was the first chapter of St. John. He read the first fourteen verses.
"Dat vil do; now read here." She returned to the sixth chapter, sixty-second verse, and he read:
"What and if ye see the Son of man ascend up to where He was before."
She turned to another. It was the twenty-eighth verse of chapter sixteen:
"I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world and go to the Father."
Still she made him read one more, the fifth verse of the seventeenth chapter:
"And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was."
"Now, vat does it all mean, Mr. Ames?"