"What did you want to be baptized for?"
"Because Jesus says we must."
"Yes, properly; but not improperly, without knowing what you do. What do you think it means, Matilda?"
"To be baptized, Aunt Erminia?"
"Yes."
"It means," said the child steadily, and with the clear utterance of pleasure, "that I belong to the Lord Jesus Christ."
"There!" said Clarissa, appealing to her mother.
"I thought so," said Mrs. Candy. "That is not what it means, Matilda."
"It is what I mean, Aunt Candy."
"It means a great deal more, my dear, which you cannot understand. And you ought to have had a white dress on."