XII.
"Whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple."—Luke 14:33.
"I cannot understand him," Frue Bogstad was saying. "His actions are so strange."
"It's simply wicked of him," added Froken Selma Bogstad. "He is bringing the whole family into disrepute."
The mother did not reply, but turned her face thoughtfully away from the angry daughter.
"The boy is completely carried away with this American religion," continued the girl, pacing nervously back and forth in the room. "Pastor Tonset called to see him the other day, and you ought to have heard them! The pastor, as our friend, came to advise him; but do you think Henrik would take any advice? Why, he even argued with the pastor, saying that he could prove the truth of this religion from the Scriptures."
"Has he talked to you about it?"
"Yes; and he wanted me to accompany him to Osterhausgaden where these people hold meetings. I told him definitely and forcibly that I didn't want him to mention religion to me."
"He seems to be in such deep earnest."