"O yes," said Mr. Richmond.
"I never saw anybody who did," said David; "nor anything like it;—unless," he added looking up, "it is Matilda there."
Matilda started and flushed. Mr. Richmond's eyes fell on her with a very moved pleasure in them. Neither spoke, and David went on with the reading. He was greatly struck again, in another way, with the quotation from Isaiah in the thirteenth chapter, and its application; indeed with the whole chapter. But when they came to the talk with the woman of Samaria, David stopped short.
"'I that speak unto thee am he.' Then he said himself that he was Messiah?"
"To this woman, to his twelve disciples, and to two or three more."
"Why not to the whole people?"
"Is it likely they would have believed him?"
David pondered.
"They asked him once the direct question—'How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be Messiah, tell us plainly.'"
"What did he say?"