No reply.
“Come, you took notes, and one or two interpretations were discarded for that which seemed to be more in accordance with the mind of St. Paul. Miss Arden”—Miss Arden was sitting nearest to Mr. Cardew—“cannot you say?”
Miss Arden shook her ringlets, smiled, and turned a little red, as if she had been complimented by Mr. Cardew’s inquiries after the body of death, and, glancing at her paper, replied—“The death of this body.”
“Pardon me, that was one of the interpretations rejected.”
“This body of death,” said Catharine.
“Quite so.”
Mr. Cardew turned hastily round to the new pupil, whom he had not noticed before, and looked at her steadily for a moment.
“Can you proceed a little and explain what that means?”
Catharine’s voice trembled, but she managed to read from her paper: “It is strikingly after the manner of St. Paul. He opposes the two pictures in him by the strongest words at his command—death and life. One is death, the other is life, and he prays to be delivered from death; not the death of the body, but from death-in-life.”
“Thank you; that is very nearly what I intended.”