A grown-up person, an important person, a member of the District
Council, splashing about in a tank! She asked him many questions
concerning the baptism itself, and he told her all that he knew about
it. He did not tell her, however, of Mr. Osborn's proposal that the
immersion should occur in the wood-stream.
"What took your fancy, Will dear, with Mr. Osborn's teaching more than
anybody else's?"
Then he told her all that Mr. Osborn had said of the fatherly
attributes of God, of the fact that men were veritably His children,
and that for communion with God one must be as a child approaching a
father.
"Yes, dear, I'm sure that's true. But Mr. Norton would say just the
same."
"He never _has_ said it, Mav. That is, I never heard him say it."
"Perhaps in those days you didn't note his words. I'm not arguing,
dear. You must do whatever you judge right, and it will be right for
me--if once you've done it. Only I do assure you what you repeated is
altogether Church of England; and I feel certain Mr. Norton must have
said it times and often."
"Then perhaps he hasn't said it quite in the same way."
When the evening arrived Mavis asked if she might come to the chapel,
but he said "No." Her presence would distract his thoughts.
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