'A what?' demanded the colonel, rousing himself.
'A "dissenter," papa.'
'What do you know about dissenters?'
'Nothing, papa. What is it?'
'What makes you ask?'
'I heard the word, papa, and I didn't know what it meant.'
'There is no need you should know what it means. A dissenter is one who dissents.'
'From what, sir?'
'From something that other people believe in.'
'But, papa, according to that, then, everybody is a dissenter; and that is not true, is it?'