"It seems to me that you have always tried to do that, Karin."
"Let me tell you how it was to live by the old teaching. It was like trying to walk upon a round beam: one minute you were up, the next you were down. But when I let my fellow-Christians take me by the hand and support me, I can tread the straight and narrow path of Righteousness without stumbling."
"I dare say," Ingmar smiled; "but that's too easy."
"Even so, it's quite difficult enough, but no longer impossible."
"But what about the Storms?"
"Those who belong with us took their children out of the school. You see we didn't want the children to absorb any of the old teaching."
"What did the schoolmaster say to that?"
"He said it was against the law to take children away from school, and promptly sent a constable over to Israel Tomasson's and Krister Larsson's to fetch their children."
"And now you are not on friendly terms with the Storms?"
"We simply keep to ourselves."