'The Church' said Pitt thoughtfully. 'Who is the Church?'
'Why, my dear,' said Mrs. Dallas, 'don't ask such questions. You know as well as I do.'
'As I understand it, mother, what you mean is simply a body of
Christians who lived some time ago.'
'Yes. Well, what then?'
'I do not comprehend how they should know what you and I want to read to-day. I am not talking of Church services. I am talking of private reading.'
'But it is pleasant and convenient,' said Betty.
'May be very inappropriate.'
'Pitt,' said his mother, 'I wish you would not talk so! It is really very wrong. This comes of your way of questioning and reasoning about everything. What we have to do with the Church is to obey.'
'And that is what we have to do with the Bible, isn't it?' he said gravely.
'Undoubtedly.'