"But other people won't know. Your being baptized will not mean anything to them, only that somebody has coaxed you into it."
"It will mean all that, Norton; and if I am true they will see it means all that."
"They might see it all the same without your being baptized. What difference would that make?"
"It is obedience," said Matilda, firmly. "And not to do it would be disobedience. And it is profession of faith; and not to do it, would be to say that I don't believe."
Norton looked amused, and pleased, and a little puzzled.
"You have not told me anything about you, after all," he said; "for I knew it all before."
"How did you know it?"
"Not this about your being baptized, you know, but about you."
"What about me?"
"I say, Matilda, when will you come and play croquet again?"