I suppose he does suffer, in a way.

But if he can contemplate her distress unmoved, do you think anything I can urge will change him?
He'll wait for her conversion, if it takes her whole life." "But Helen has been confirmed," said Mrs.Dale, in a bewildered way; "what more does he want ?" "He wants her to be converted, I tell you," cried her brother, "and he's bound to bring it about! He uses the illustration of giving medicine to a sick child to insure its recovery, no matter at what cost of pain to the child or the giver." "But isn't it the same thing ?" persisted Mrs.Dale: "converted--confirmed?
We don't use such expressions in the Church, but it is the same thing." "'Experience a change of heart,' Ward says in his letter; 'be convicted of the sin of unbelief'!" the rector said contemptuously, and ignoring his sister's question; "but conversion with him merely means a belief in hell, so far as I can make out." "Well, of course Helen is all wrong not to believe in hell," said Mrs.
Dale promptly; "the Prayer-Book teaches it, and she must.

I'll tell her so.

All you have to do is to see this Mr.Ward and tell him she will; and just explain to him that she has been confirmed,--we don't use those Methodistical expressions in the Church.

Perhaps the sect he belongs to does, but one always thinks of them as rather belonging to the lower classes, you know.