"But is it not true?"
"You would find every wealthy community more or less like Mainbridge."
"Would I? That does not alter the case, Basil."
"No. Do you think things are different here in Pleasant Valley?"
Diana pondered. "I think they do not seem the same," she said.
"People at least would not be shocked if you told them here what
Christian living is. And there are some who know it by experience."
"No doubt, so there are in the Mainbridge church, though it may be we shall find them most among the poor people."
"But what is it you want me to do, Basil?"
"Show them what a life lived for Christ is. We will both show them; but in my case people lay it off largely on the bond of my profession. Then, when we have shown them for awhile what it is, we can speak of it with some hope of being understood."
"Has anything special come to the Dominie?" Mrs. Starling asked that evening, when after prayers the minister had gone to his study.
"Why, mother?"