"More! I've been thinking about it a long time a'ready."
"Well I'll talk to papa about it, and we'll see what he says. You know we want you always to do right," said his mamma, and he got his magnet, and put pins together and magnetized a needle, and made it swim, and point north and south.
That night after both children were asleep, their parents talked a good deal about what Charlie had said.
"Charlie wants to unite with the church."
"He does? When did he say so?"
"Just to-day, and he is in deep earnest about it, too. I don't know what to think, hardly."
"I hardly think he realizes fully, what he wants to do."
"Poor little fellow, what do you think I had better tell him?"
"I don't know. Suppose he should come and then not hold out. You see that would be bad."
"Yes, and then, papa, what wrong has he done?"