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May I? Will you think me impertinent, presuming, inquisitive?"
"I have no doubt I shall," said Jane. "But I am thinking you all
sorts of unusual things to-night; so three adjectives more or less
will not matter much. You may ask."
"Miss Champion, have YOU a rosary?"
Jane looked at him blankly; then suddenly understood the drift of
his question.
"My dear boy, NO!" she said. "Thank goodness, I have kept clear of
'memories that bless and burn.' None of these things enter into my
rational and well-ordered life, and I have no wish that they
should."
"Then," deliberated Garth, "how came you to sing THE ROSARY as if
each line were your own experience; each joy or pain a thing--long
passed, perhaps--but your own?"
"Because," explained Jane, "I always live in a song when I sing it.
Did I not tell you the lesson I learned over the CHANT HINDOU?
Therefore I had a rosary undoubtedly when I was singing that song
to-night. But, apart from that, in the sense you mean, no, thank
goodness, I have none.


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