Mrs. May winced. She thought the word Jesus should be kept inside the church building like other words inside the bedroom.
She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true.
Wesley, the younger child, had had rheumatic fever when he was seven and Mrs. May thought this was what had caused him to be an intellectual.
He’d always been willing to confess his faults, for, by admitting them, it was as if he made them no longer exist.