"No, sir."
"Have you loved the good God all your life, with all your heart?"
"No."
"You have loved to please yourself, rather than anything else?"
The nod with which Julia answered this, if not polite, was at least significant, accompanied with an emphatic "Always!" Mr. Rhys could not help smiling at her, but he went on gravely enough.
"What is to keep you then from being afraid?"
"From being afraid?"
"Yes. You want a helmet."
"Afraid?" said Julia.
"Yes. Afraid of the justice of God. He never lets a sin go unpunished.
He is perfectly just."