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"Shall we eva, do 'ou think, have a new 'iligion t'ua and betta?" That was a revolutionary idea to him. He was still fending it off from him when a gap in the shrubs brought them within sight of the house and of Mrs. Garstein Fellows on the portico waving a handkerchief and crying "Break-fast." "I wish we could talk for houas," said Lady Sunderbund. "I've been glad of this talk," said the bishop.
She did her very pretty best to convey what it was had been troubling her. 'iligion bad been worrying her for years. Life was oh just ornaments and games and so wea'isome, so wea'isome, unless it was 'iligious. And she couldn't get it 'iligious. The bishop nodded his head gravely. "You unde'stand?" she pressed. "I understand too well the attempt to get hold and keep hold."
She took that point very brightly. "One must hold fast to 'iligion," she said, and looked earnestly at him and gripped fiercely, pink thumbs out, with her beautiful hands held up. That was it, exactly. He too was gripping.
"You have gone at one step to a new 'iligion!" He stared for a moment at the phrase. "To religion," he said. "It is so wondyful," she said, with her hands straight down upon the couch upon which she was sitting, and leaning forward at him, so as to seem almost as much out of drawing as a modern picture. "It seems," he reflected; " as if it were a natural thing."
When they we' all vain and cleva, and you you thought only of God and 'iligion and didn't mind fo' you'self.... Up to then I'd been living oh! the emptiest life..." The tears ran. "Pe'haps I shall live it again...." She dashed her grief away with a hand beringed with stones as big as beetles. "I said to myself, this man knows something I don't know. He's got the seeds of ete'nal life su'ely.
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