"And it is not safe without them!"
"It is safe with them, mamma."
"Mr. Carlisle, what do you think of such doings?" said Mrs. Powle, appealing in despair.
"They move my curiosity," he said quietly. "I hope Eleanor will go on to gratify it."
"And can you really find nothing better than that to do, of a Sunday?" her mother went on.
"No, mamma, I do not think I can."
"What do they learn?" Mr. Carlisle inquired.
"A little reading, some of them; but the main thing to teach them is the truths of the Bible. They never heard them before, anywhere,—nor can hear them anywhere else."
"Do you think they will hear them there?"
"I am sure they do."