"I am going to wait," said Maria.
"Why?"
"Why, because I don't feel like it. Not now."
"I do not want to wait," said Matilda. And probably she was going to say more, but her lip trembled and she stopped.
"It would be no harm, Tilly, if you waited. Nobody would expect it of us now. Nobody would expect it, Tilly."
"I think One would," said Matilda.
"Who?"
"Jesus."
"But, Tilly," said Maria, uneasily, "I don't think so. It could not be pleasant for you and me, you know, to go forward and be baptized now. We might wait till another time; and then it would be more easy, wouldn't it?"
"It is not hard now," said Matilda. "It is pleasant now. I do not wish to put it off."