Things COULD N'T look the same if the Judgment Day was going to be to-morrow . '' `` But that 's just the way it 's to come , '' I said uncomfortably . `` It tells you in the Bible . It 's to come just like a thief in the night . '' `` But it tells you another thing in the Bible , too , '' said Cecily eagerly . `` It says nobody knows when the Judgment Day is to come -- not even the angels in heaven . Now , if the angels in heaven do n't know it , do you suppose the editor of the Enterprise can know it -- and him a Grit , too ? '' `` I guess he knows as much about it as a Tory would , '' retorted the Story Girl . Uncle Roger was a Liberal and Uncle Alec a Conservative , and the girls held fast to the political traditions of their respective households . `` But it is n't really the Enterprise editor at all who is saying it -- it 's a man in the States who claims to be a prophet . If he IS a prophet perhaps he has found out somehow . '' `` And it 's in the paper , too , and that 's printed as well as the Bible , '' said Dan . `` Well , I 'm going to depend on the Bible , '' said Cecily . `` I do n't believe it 's the Judgment Day to-morrow -- but I 'm scared , for all that , '' she added piteously . That was exactly the position of us all . As in the case of the bell-ringing ghost , we did not believe but we trembled . `` Nobody might have known when the Bible was written , '' said Dan , `` but maybe somebody knows now . Why , the Bible was written thousands of years ago , and that paper was printed this very morning . There 's been time to find out ever so much more . '' `` I want to do so many things , '' said the Story Girl , plucking off her crown of buttercup gold with a tragic gesture , `` but if it 's the Judgment Day to-morrow I wo n't have time to do any of them . ''
`` It ca n't be much worse than dying , I s ` pose , '' said Felix , grasping at any straw XXXXX comfort .
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