“None the less, I cannot do it.”
“But why not?”
“I cannot be false to Christ.”
“What falsehood is there in this?”
“It is a denial of Him.”
“Bah! He died two hundred years ago.”
“He lives, He is ever present, He sees and knows all.”
“Well, then He will not look harshly on a girl who acts thus to save her life.”
“I should be false to myself as well as to Him.”
“I cannot understand this——”