The day had its importance for a Christian mind.

Did Eve think about that?
Perhaps her association with him, careless as he was in all such matters, had helped to blunt her religious feeling.

Yet what hope was there, in such a world as this, that she would retain the pieties of her girlhood?
Easter Sunday.

As he walked on, he pondered the Christian story, and tried to make something out of it.

Had it any significance for _him_?
Perhaps, for he had never consciously discarded the old faith; he had simply let it fall out of his mind.