"Well, don't it say things pretty different from what most folks do?"
"Yes. What then?"
"Then it wouldn't be just easy to get along with it, I should think."
"What then?"
"Well!" said Rupert,—"how are you going to live in the world, and not do as the world do?"
"Then you have studied the Bible a little?"
"No, fact, I haven't," said Rupert. "But I've heard folks talk now and again; and that's what I think about it."
"Suppose it is difficult?" said Dolly. "But it is really not difficult, if one is a true servant of God and not only make-believe. Suppose it were difficult, though. Do you remember what Christ said of the two ways, serving Him and not serving Him?"
Rupert shook his head.
"Have you got a Bible of your own?"