"Then he may be selfish enough to do it. But in that case, Miss Dolly, a Christian woman can have nothing to say to him."
"Why not? She might bring him to be Christian, you know."
"That isn't the Lord's way, Miss Dolly."
"What is His way, then?"
"You will find it in the sixth chapter of 2nd Corinthians. 'Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers.'"
"But that means"——
"It says—Miss Dolly; it says,—do not be yoked up with one who is not following the Lord; neither in marriage, nor in business. Two oxen in a yoke, Miss Dolly, have to pull the same way; and if they don't want to, the weakest must go with the strongest."
"But might not the Christian one be the strongest?"
"His disobeyeing the Lord's command just shows he isn't that."
Dolly let the subject drop. She took a little cushion and sat down by her friend's side and laid her head in her lap; and they sat so a while, Mrs. Jersey looking fondly down upon the very lovely bright head on her knees, and marvelling sorrowfully at the fathers and mothers who prepare trouble for such tender and delicate creatures as their young daughters.