'Then darkly, not as now, in the light.'
'Would that all the world saw Me in the light as you do! Then would My Father's brightness shine out upon all men, as does the sun. But yet they love the darkness rather than the light.'
Mr. Kinloch inquired, being puzzled:
'What is this? Have you met this gentleman before? Is he a friend of yours as well as of your mother's? I thought I knew something of all your acquaintance. I've always tried to make a rule of doing so. How comes it that you womenfolk have had a friend of whom I've been told nothing?'
Ada replied to his question with another.
'Father, do you not know Christ?'
'My dear girl, don't speak to me as if you were one of those women who go about with tracts in their hands! Haven't I always observed your mother's wishes, and seen that you went regularly to church? What do you mean by addressing your father as if he were a heathen?'
'This is Christ.'
'This? Girl, this is a man!'
'Father, have you forgotten that Christ was made man?'