He turned to the different places where she had been reading, and carefully marked the passages; then sought out and likewise marked several others. 'Will you study the lesson out?' he asked as he was busy with the last marking.
'I will try—I think,' she answered slowly. 'As well as I know how.'
'Do not fancy,' he said, smiling as he shut the book, 'that the care of the needy, in any shape, is religion; nor think that He who loves us will take anything as a substitute for our whole-hearted love to him. If we give him that, he will let us know in what way we may shew it.'
She made no answer except by another swift look. This was
Chaldee to her! He let the silence last a little while.
'Now I have asked you so many questions,' he said, 'I should like it if you would ask me a few.'
'What about?'
'All subjects are open to you!'
'How did you contrive to make the bay "stand"?'
The flash of Rollo's eye came first.
'How do you know I did?' he said laughing. 'But that is no answer. Let me see. I believe, first I made him know that he must mind me; and secondly, I persuaded him into loving me. All that remained, was to let him understand that I wanted him to be immovable when I was not on his back.'