"You know!" said David.
"Yes; for he said so."
"Who said so?"
"Why, Jesus. Here—stop!—no, here it is, one place. Listen, David, just to this. 'And as they heard these things, he added and spake a parable, because he was nigh to Jerusalem, and because they thought that the kingdom of God should immediately appear.'—That's what you thought, David."
"Well, but,—" David began.
"Just listen. 'He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and to return.'"
"What's that?" said David.
"Why, don't you understand?"
"No. Not what it has to do with what I was talking about."
"Why, David, the far country is heaven; and Jesus is gone there until the kingdom is ready, or till he is ready to take it."