Pausing between cookies, or biscuits, as she likes to call them, Carol says, "And please, what was meant by these 'Little Ones'?"
"Carol, you really want to make my head hurt today", Aaron says, smiling wearily.
"The book, Lilith," says Carl, "Was George Macdonald's final work of literature, written in 1895. it's about a wealthy young Scot, having just inherited the family estate, ends up on an adventure in a parallel dimension populated by very unusual individuals, among them a colony of children who are joy and innocence personified. Those are what he would have been referring to, don't you think, Aaron?"
"We read the book together while we were both sharing the old farmhouse. We came to personify others whom we thought might be closer to God with that colony of children."
"He used to call us, Carl and me, little ones", Melissa says.
"And he is absolutely right", says Carol, who still hasn't picked up another cookie, or biscuit. Could she be...sated? "You are both so delightful."
Maureen says, "He wanted to be like that, Douglas. He came to confide in me a lot. He never believed he could ever put his past behind. He didn't believe that even God could forgive him."
"What awful things did he do?"
"He had been a former member of the same cartel that Isabel was part of. And Aaron, he did come clean with me. When he joined you in your Christian ministry many years ago, he was working with that group, and the intention was to destroy you and your work for Christ. Fortunately, you were too effective a channel of God's grace for that to happen. But he still never worked through any of his baggage, and it did eventually destroy him, I'm afraid..."
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