"'The faithful Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ give us all a happy end. Amen.'"
There was the usual pause after Meredith had done reading. Flora, however, could not keep back long her expression of opinion.
"I protest!" she said. "Those people were utterly fanatical! Mr. Murray, isn't it true?"
"O Uncle Eden, do you think so?" cried Maggie. "I think it is beautiful."
"Maggie is too young to understand," remarked Esther. "Those people were very unnatural, I think."
"How?" said Meredith.
"Yes, how?" Mr. Murray echoed. "I should like to hear the arguments on both sides."
"A man who is dying, and has a wife and four children," said Flora solemnly, "has no right to give his last six groschen away. I don't know how much a groschen is, but that don't make any difference. He has no right to to do it!"
"You emphasise, 'a man who is dying,'" said Meredith. "Would the case be different if he were a man living and going to live?"
"Why, of course."