“You want to change your religion!” exclaimed Cæsar, “What for? I don’t believe you are going to find your lost faith by becoming a Catholic.”
“And what do you think about it, Kennedy?” Susanna asked the young Englishman, who was there too.
“To me a Catholic woman seems doubly enchanting.”
“You would not marry a woman who wasn’t a Catholic?”
“No, indeed,” the Englishman proclaimed.
Cæsar and Kennedy disagreed about everything.
Susanna discussed her plans, and constantly referred to Paul Bourget’s novel Cosmopolis, which had obviously influenced her in her inclination for Catholicism.
“Are there many Jewish ladies who aspire to be baptized and become Catholics, as Bourget says?” asked Susanna.
“Bah!” exclaimed Cæsar.
“You do not believe that either?”