“You expect,” said Clara, not appearing to notice the last remark, “you expect to give up dancing, as most church people do.”
“Certainly. I cannot do violence to my conscience by indulging in an amusement which I regard as of doubtful propriety, to say the least of it.”
“Where is the harm in dancing? Church people condemn it, but I never could see any sin in it—not the least.”
“But there would be sin in it to me with my present views,” said Ernest.
“You used to like it as well as I did.”
“Yes, that is true; but the time has come when I must and will renounce it.”
“You expect me to give it up, too?”
“That is a matter to be determined by your own conscience. I shall not interfere.”
“There is the theatre—you will give that up too?”