“Our Father, etc.,” “I believe in God, etc.”

138. The child, all stammering and sobbing, repeated the Pater and the Credo. The father, in a firm voice responded Amen at the close of each prayer.

139. “Are those all the prayers that you know?”

“Hail Mary, etc.” A liturgical prayer.

140. “I also know the Ave Maria, and the Litany that my aunt taught me, Father.”

141. “It is rather long, but it doesn’t matter.”

Note force of “achieved.”

142. The child achieved the Litany in a faint voice.

143. “Have you finished?”

Contrast with his former vicious “coolness.”