'I do not forget that,' said Pitt gravely. 'Not the world, but a small piece of it does rest on my head, as on that of every other human creature. On the right position and right movement of every one of us depends more than we know. What we have to do is to keep straight and go straight.' 'But did you think it was _duty_ to do what you did last night?' 'I did it in that faith.' 'I wish you would explain to me!' cried the lady. 'I cannot understand. I believe you, of course; but _why_ did you think it duty? It just raised a storm; you know it did; they did not like it; and it would only make them more opposed to your new principles. I do not see how it could do any good.' 'Yes,' said Pitt, who meanwhile was going on with his packing and putting away. 'I know all that. But don't you think people ought to show their colours, as much as ships at sea?' 'Ships at sea do not always show their colours.' 'If they do not, when there is occasion, it is always ground for suspicion. It shows that they are for some reason either afraid or ashamed to announce themselves.' 'I do not understand!' said Miss Frere perplexedly. 'Why should _you_ show your colours?' 'I said I was moved by duty to propose prayers last night. It was more than that.' Pitt stopped in his going about the room and stood opposite his fair opponent, if she can be called so, facing her with steady eyes and a light in them which drew her wonder. 'It was more than duty. Since I have come to see the goodness of Christ, and the happiness of belonging to Him, I wish exceedingly that everybody else should see it and know it as I do.' 'And, if I remember, you intimated once that it was to be the business of your life to make them know it?' 'What do you think of that purpose?' 'It seems to me extravagant.' 'Otherwise, fanatical!' 'I would not express it so. But what are clergymen for, if this is your business?' 'To whom was the command given?' 'To the apostles and their successors.' 'No, it was given to the whole band of disciples; the order to go into all the world and make disciples of every creature.' 'All the disciples!' 'And to all the disciples that other command was given,--"Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them." And of all the things that a man can want and desire to have given him, there is nothing comparable for preciousness to the knowledge of Christ.' 'But, Mr. Dallas, this is not the general way of thinking?' 'Among those who'--he paused--'who are glad in the love of Christ, I think it must be.' 'Then what are those who are not "glad" in that way?' 'Greatly to be pitied!'