(“My dear,” observed her husband in parenthesis, “why not?”)

“The gentleman certainly is a Jew,” said Lizzie, “and the lady, his wife, is a Jewess, and I was first brought to their notice by a Jew. But I think there cannot be kinder people in the world.”

“But suppose they try to convert you!” suggested Mrs. Milvey, bristling in her good little way, as a clergyman’s wife.

“To do what, ma’am?” asked Lizzie, with a modest smile.

“To make you change your religion,” said Mrs. Milvey.