"No, ma'am. I do not understand it."
"But it is about what you have just done, Matilda. It is about the ordinance of baptism, and the life proper to a person who has been received into the Church. You ought to understand that."
"I do understand it, in the Bible."
"What does the Bible say about it?"
"It says,—'My sheep hear My voice: and I know them, and they follow Me.'"
"What do you mean by 'following Him'?"
"Why, living the sort of life He lived, and doing what He tells us to do."
"How do you propose to live the sort of life He lived? It's almost blasphemy."
"Why, no, aunt Candy; He tells us to do it."
"Do what?"