'What is to become of all these things?' she asked, pursuing her thoughts.
'They will be safe here till I return.'
'But I mean— You do not understand me. I was thinking rather, what would become of all the tastes and likings to which they bear evidence? How do they match with your new views of things?'
'How do they not match?' said Pitt, stopping short.
'You spoke of giving up all things, did you not?'
'The Bible does,' said Pitt, smiling. 'But that is, if need be for the service or honour of God. Did you think they were to be renounced in all cases?'
'Then what did you mean?'
'The Bible means, evidently, that we are to be so minded, toward them and toward God, that we are ready to give them up and do give them up just so far and so fast as His service calls for it. That is all, and it is enough!'
Betty watched him a little longer, and then began again.
'You say, it is to be the business of your life to—well, how shall I put it?—to set people right, in short. Why don't you begin at the beginning, and attack me?'