She answered with so evident a strong and clear appreciation of what she was saying, that it half made its way into Mr. Carleton's mind by the force of sheer sympathy. Her words came almost as something new.
Certainly Mr. Carleton had heard these things before; though perhaps never in a way that appealed so directly to his intelligence and his candour. He was again silent an instant, pondering, and so was Fleda.
"Do you know, Elfie," said Mr. Carleton, "there are some people who do not believe that the Saviour was anything more than a man?"
"Yes, I know it," said Fleda; "it is very strange!"
"Why is it strange?"
"Because the Bible says it so plainly."
"But those people hold, I believe, that the Bible does not say it."
"I don't see how they could have read the Bible," said Fleda.
"Why, he said so himself."
"Who said so?"
"Jesus Christ. Don't you believe it, Mr. Carleton?"