"Well," said the minister, "they want help so much the more."
"Help to live, do you mean? They do stealing enough for that."
"Nobody lives by stealing," said the minister. "It is one of the ways of death; and help to live is just what they want. But 'how shall they believe on him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher'?"
"And do you preach to them in that place?"
"I try."
"But there is no church there?"
"When you have got anything to do," said the minister, with a dry sort of humourousness which belonged to him, "it is best not be stopped by trifles."
"Where do you preach, then, Basil?"
"Wherever I can find a man or a woman to listen to me."
"In the houses?" exclaimed Diana.