"
"But just think how much more she could do for Christ as the minister's
wife!"
"I'm 'maist convinced she wad coont merryin you as tantamount to refusin to
lea' a' for the Son o' Man."
"Why should she think that?"
"Because, sae far as I see, she canna think that _ye_ hae left a' for
_him_."
"Ah, that is what you have been teaching her! She does not say that of
herself! You have not left her free to choose!"
"The queston never came up atween's. She's perfecly free to tak her ain
gait--and she kens she is!--Ye dinna seem to think it possible she sud tak
_his_ wull raither nor yours!--that the love o' Christ should constrain her
ayont the love offert her by Jeames Bletherwick!--We _hae_ conversed aboot
ye, sir, but niver differt!"
"But allowing us--you and me--to be of different opinions on some points,
must that be a reason why she and I should not love one another?"
"No reason whatever, sir--if ye can and do: _that_ point would be already
settlet. But ye winna get Maggie to merry ye sae long as she disna believe
ye loe her Lord as well as she loes him hersel.
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