"I don't think God cares," said Matilda.
"Did you ever hear such dreadful teaching as these people have?" said the mother, appealing to the daughter. "My dear, there is a propriety in things. And not one of the candidates this evening was dressed in white."
"But the water means a clean heart," said Matilda; "and if we have that, God will think we are dressed in white."
"So you think you have a clean heart?"
"I think Jesus has begun to make it clean."
"And what does it mean to renounce the devil and all his works?"
"It means," said Matilda, sighing, "to have nothing to do with anything that is wrong."
"How is such a child as you to know what is wrong?"
"Why, the Bible, Aunt Candy."
"What is the vain pomp and glory of the world?"