No one could have made it clearer, all his life, what he thought of religion. They’ll come now, when his mind’s wandering and he hasn’t the strength to resist, and claim him as a death-bed penitent. I’ve had a certain respect for their Church up till now. If they do a thing like that I shall know that everything stupid people say about them is quite true—that it’s all superstition and trickery.” Julia said nothing. “Don’t you agree?” Still Julia said nothing. “Don’t you agree?” “I don’t know, Charles. I simply don’t know.” And, though none of us spoke of it, I felt the question ever present,
...more
