The only person who had no hand in it that I know of was Jesus Christ." "And those who have left all and followed Him," said Arnold softly.
"Precious few," retorted Peter.
The other had nothing to say.
* * * * * During these months Peter wrote often to Hilda, and with increasing frankness.

Her replies grew shorter as his letters grew longer.

It was strange, perhaps, that he should continue to write, but the explanation was not far to seek.

It was by her that he gauged the extent of his separation from the old outlook, and in her that he still clung, desperately, as it were, to the past.

Against reason he elevated her into a kind of test position, and if her replies gave him no encouragement, they at least served to make him feel the inevitableness and the reality of his present position.