She looked full in his face with a look of grave surprise. “I did not think that of you,” she said; “you always have seemed so honest. Don’t you know that nothing in heaven or earth can satisfy me, unless it is the _truth_? No shams, no half-way things, but something like rock that will never fail. I did not think that of you, John!” John sat alone and puzzled over her words that night. “I always have to puzzle things out,” he said. “They never come to me like a flash, as they do to Rose. Stop, though! I am wrong there. She has been months in getting at it, and they were months that almost killed her. Why was it?” Plainly enough he saw at last why it was. God, the soul, eternity—those things which are invisible—were more real to Rose than the visible things. And should they not be? He knew very well that he would be stung to the quick to be told that his body—his material, tangible, lower nature—had the upper hand in his life. No, his reason, his intellect—something intangible and invisible anyhow, by whatever name you named it—was the governing power. And if so, then why should not One invisible and intangible be the ruler of that, and claim from him more than a merely blameless life and an honest fame; demand submission of his will and reason and thought? John shook his head ruefully; the idea struck home; he did not like it, but there it was. The next day Rose quietly laid before him her little Catechism, open at the very first section, and John read this: “_Question._ _Who made you?_ “_Answer._ GOD. “_Q._ Why did he make you? “_A._ That I might know him, love him, and serve him in this world, and be happy with him for ever in the next. “_Q._ To whose likeness did he make you? “_A._ To his own image and likeness. “_Q._ Is this likeness in your body or in your soul? “_A._ In my soul. “_Q._ In what is your soul like to God? “_A._ Because my soul is a spirit endowed with understanding and free will, and is immortal—that is to say, can never die. “_Q._ In what else is your soul like to God? “_A._ Because as in God there are three persons and one God, so in man there is one soul and three powers. “_Q._ Which are the three powers? “_A._ Will, memory, and understanding. “_Q._ Which must we take most care of, our body or our soul? “_A._ Of our soul. “_Q._ Why so? “_A._ Because, ‘What doth it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?’ “_Q._ What must we do to save our soul? “_A._ We must worship God by faith, hope, and charity; that is, we must believe in him, hope in him, and love him with all our heart. “_Q._ How shall we know the things which we are to believe? “_A._ From the Catholic Church of God, which he has established by innumerable miracles, and illustrated by the lives and deaths of innumerable saints.”