"But what do you mean by it exactly?" said Diana.
"Don't you know?"
"I suppose I do. I know what it means to be well in body. I have been well all my life."
"How would you characterize that happy condition?"
"Why," said Diana, unused to definitions of abstractions, but following Mr. Masters' lead as people always did, gentle or simple,—"I mean, or it means, sound, and comfortable, and fit for what one has to do."
"Excellent," said the minister. "I see you understand the subject.
Cannot those things be true of soul and mind, as well as of body?"
"What is the difference between soul and mind?" said Diana.
"A clear departure!" said the minister, laughing; then gravely, "Do you read philosophy?"
"I don't know"—said Diana. "I read, or I used to read, a good many sorts of books. I haven't read much lately."
The minister gave her another keen look while she was attending to something else, and when he spoke again it was with a change of tone.