The colour came a little into Faith's cheeks, but her words were given with great simplicity.
"The other days are taken up very much with the work of this world—Sunday is meant more particularly for the work that belongs to the other world."
"And what is that? if you do not object to tell me. I confess, as I tell you, I am ignorant."
She forgot herself now, and looked steadily at him.
"To learn to know God—with whom we have so much to do, here and there;—to learn to know his will and to do it, and to bring others to do it too, if we can.—And if we know and love him already, to enjoy it and take the good of it,"—she added a little lower, and with a softening of expression.
Dr. Harrison read her look fixedly, till she turned it away from him.
"And are these what you call pleasant things?" said he somewhat curiously.
But Faith's answer rang out from her heart.
"Oh yes!"—
She stopped there, but evidently not for want of what to say.