`` Has n't Peter got tall ? '' said Cecily . `` Peter is growing to be a very fine looking boy , '' decreed Felicity . `` I notice he 's got ever so much handsomer since his father came home , '' said Dan , with a killing sarcasm that was wholly lost on Felicity , who gravely responded that she supposed it was because Peter felt so much freer from care and responsibility . `` What luck , Peter ? '' yelled Dan , as soon as Peter was within earshot . `` Everything 's all right , '' he shouted jubilantly . `` I told father right off , licketty-split , as soon as I got home , '' he added when he reached us . `` I was anxious to have it over with . I says , solemn-like , ` Dad , there 's something I 've got to tell you , and I do n't know how you 'll take it , but it ca n't be helped , ' I says . Dad looked pretty sober , and he says , says he , ` What have you been up to , Peter ? Do n't be afraid to tell me . I 've been forgiven to seventy times seven , so surely I can forgive a little , too ? ' ` Well , ' I says , desperate-like , ` the truth is , father , I 'm a Presbyterian . I made up my mind last summer , the time of the Judgment Day , that I 'd be a Presbyterian , and I 've got to stick to it . I 'm sorry I ca n't be a Methodist , like you and mother and Aunt Jane , but I ca n't and that 's all there is to it , ' I says . Then I waited , scared-like . But father , he just looked relieved and he says , says he , ` Goodness , boy , you can be a Presbyterian or anything else you like , so long as it 's Protestant . I 'm not caring , ' he says . ` The main thing is that you must be good and do what 's right . '
I XXXXX you , '' concluded Peter emphatically , `` father is a Christian all right . ''
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