'And keep it?'
'Keep it? You cannot keep anything in this world.'
'I do not think anything is happiness, that you cannot keep.'
'But—if you come to that—what can you keep?' said Betty.
Esther bent forward a little, and said, with an intense gleam in her grey eyes, which seemed to dance and sparkle,
'"Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, and to-day, and for ever."'
'I do not know Him,' Betty breathed out, after staring at her companion.
'I saw that.'
Esther rose, and Betty felt constrained to rise too.
'Oh, are you going?' she cried. 'I have not done talking. How can I know Him?'