She says there isn't any God.

She says the trees made her!" Rachel and Kitty and Maggie, Sadie and Annie and Beckie, made a circle around me, and pressed me with questions, and mocked me, and threatened me with hell flames and utter extinction.

I held my ground against them all obstinately enough, though my argument was exceedingly lame.

I glibly repeated phrases I had heard my father use, but I had no real understanding of his atheistic doctrines.

I had been surprised into this dispute.