Is that your meaning?"
"Partially. She manages to do everything in a different way from other
people. Her mind seems peculiarly independent, and she is so
unreservedly Western in her ways and language. But I was referring
rather to her taste in books--she devours everything."
"You mean as a student?"
"Well, yes, I suppose so; at least she appears to possess the faculty
of absorbing every bit of information, like a sponge. Sometimes she
actually startles me with her odd questions; they are so unexpected and
abstruse, falling from the lips of so young a girl. Then her ideas are
so crude and uncommon, and she is so frankly outspoken, that I become
actually nervous when I am with her. I really believe Mr. Wynkoop
seeks to avoid meeting her, she has shocked him so frequently in
religious matters."
"Does she make light of his faith?"
"Oh, no, not that exactly, at least it is not her intention. But she
wants to know everything--why we believe this and why we believe that,
doctrines which no one else ever dreams of questioning, and he cannot
seem to make them clear to her mind. Some of her questions are so
irreverent as to be positively shocking to a spiritually minded person.
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