"You must ask Winthrop," said Winnie. "He can tell you better than I can."
"I want you to tell me. What difference, for instance, has it made in your brother?"
Winnie looked grave and somewhat puzzled.
"He don't seem much different to me," she said, — "and yet he is different. — The difference is, Miss Haye, that before, he loved us — and now he loves God and keeps his commandments."
"Don't he love you now?"
"Better than ever!" said Winnie with her eyes opening; — "why what makes you ask that?"
"Didn't he keep the commandments of the Bible before?"
"No, —not as he does now. Some of them he did, because he never was bad as some people are; — but he didn't keep them as he does now. He didn't keep the first commandment of all."
"Which is that?" said Elizabeth.
Winnie gave her another earnest look before she answered.