"Does such a life look to you burdened with restrictions?"
"They do not seem to me really restrictions," Rotha answered slowly. "Taking it altogether, such a life looks to me wide and generous and rich; and the common way poor and narrow."
"How should it be otherwise, when the one is the Lord's way, and the other man's? But people who have not tried do not know that."
"Of course not."
"They will not understand."
"I suppose they cannot."
"And the world generally does not like what it does not understand."
"I should think that could be borne."
"You are not afraid, then?"
"No, indeed," said Rotha. "But I do not mean that I stand just where you do," she added soberly. "With my whole heart I think this is right and beautiful, and I am sure it is happy; and yet, you know,"—she went on colouring brightly, "I should like anything because you liked it; and that is not quite enough. But I will study the matter thoroughly now. I never thought of it before—not so."