“Thank you very much,” she said, “it certainly is clearer. ... And it is true that Christians have died for this Faith, whatever it is?”
“Oh! yes. Thousands and thousands. Just as Mohammedans have for theirs.”
“The Mohammedans believe in God, too, don’t they?”
“Well, they did, and I suppose that a few do now. But very few: the rest have become esoteric, as they say.”
“And—and which would you say were the most highly evolved people—East or West?”
“Oh! West undoubtedly. The East thinks a good deal, but it doesn’t act much. And that always leads to confusion—even to stagnation of thought.”
“And Christianity certainly has been the Religion of the West up to a hundred years ago?”
“Oh! yes.”
She was silent then, and Mr. Francis had time again to reflect how very odd all this was. She certainly must be very much attached to this Christian friend of hers.
Then she stood up, and he rose with her.