"I was going to offer it to you of another kind, but there is no kind like it. What is your way of reading the Bible?"
"I have no particular 'way,'" said Eleanor in some surprise. "I read several chapters a day—or at least always a chapter at morning and another at evening. What 'way' do you mean?"
"There are a great many ways; and it is good to use them all at different times. But what way would be good for a half hour's refreshment, at such a time as this?"
"I am sure, I don't know," said Eleanor. "I have no way but the one."
"Yes, but we should not have seen the 'Bandel' of Helig, if we had not turned aside to look at it; and you would not have heard the blackbird and the wren perhaps, unless you had stopped to listen to them. I suppose we have missed a million of other things, for want of looking."
"Yes, but we could not look at everything all along these miles of our way," said Eleanor, her smile breaking forth again.
"Very true. On the other hand, if we go but a very little way, we can examine all around us. Have you a Bible with you?"
"No. I never carry one."
"I am better off than you. Let us try a little of this—the first chapter of Romans. Will you read the first verse, and consider it."
He handed her his Bible and Eleanor read.