"I believe they thought themselves so."
"I think they look nice in the picture," said Daisy, meditatively. "Are there any Puritans now, papa?"
"There are people that are called Puritans. It is a term apt to be applied to people that are stiff in their religion."
"Papa," said Daisy when an interval of five minutes had passed, "I do not see how people can be stiff in their religion."
"Don't you. Why not?"
"Papa, I do not see how it can be stiff, to love God and do what He says."
"No " said Mr. Randolph; "but people can be stiff in ways of their own devising."
"Ways that are not in the Bible, papa?"
"Well yes."
"But papa, it cannot be stiff to do what God says we must do?"