"They did not interest me, aunt Candy."
"My dear, they ought to interest one who has just taken such a step as you have taken."
Matilda wondered privately whether being baptized ought properly to have any effect to change the natural taste and value of things; but she did not answer.
"You understood what you read, did you?"
Matilda coloured a little.
"Aunt Candy, it was not interesting, and I did not think about it."
Mrs. Candy drew the book severely from Matilda's hand.
"After taking such a step as you took last night, you ought to try to be interested, if it were only for consistency's sake. Do you see that you were hasty? A person who does not care about the privileges and duties of church membership most certainly ought not to be a church member."
"But, aunt Candy, I do care," said Matilda.
"So it seems."