'Yes,' said Pitt, who meanwhile was going on with his packing and putting away. 'I know all that. But don't you think people ought to show their colours, as much as ships at sea?'
'Ships at sea do not always show their colours.'
'If they do not, when there is occasion, it is always ground for suspicion. It shows that they are for some reason either afraid or ashamed to announce themselves.'
'I do not understand!' said Miss Frere perplexedly. 'Why should you show your colours?'
'I said I was moved by duty to propose prayers last night. It was more than that.' Pitt stopped in his going about the room and stood opposite his fair opponent, if she can be called so, facing her with steady eyes and a light in them which drew her wonder. 'It was more than duty. Since I have come to see the goodness of Christ, and the happiness of belonging to Him, I wish exceedingly that everybody else should see it and know it as I do.'
'And, if I remember, you intimated once that it was to be the business of your life to make them know it?'
'What do you think of that purpose?'
'It seems to me extravagant.'
'Otherwise, fanatical!'
'I would not express it so. But what are clergymen for, if this is your business?'