"Yes."
"Well how that, Mr. Southwode?"
"And if eating and drinking, then the houses in which we assemble, and the tables at which we sit down."
"Yes, but you are going a little faster than I can follow," said Rotha. "In the first place, it seems to me that people in general do not think as you do."
"I told you so."
"Hardly anybody."
"Hardly anybody!"
"Then, is it not possible—"
"That I am straining the point? You have read the Bible testimony yourself; what do you think?"
Rotha was silent. Could all the Christian world, almost all of it, be wrong, and only Mr. Southwode right? Was the rule indeed to be drawn so close? She doubted. The Bible words, to be sure,—but then, why did not others see them too?