"I could not live with your wife if she is going to faint every time she quarrels with me."
"Mother, I know all about your quarrel with Theodora. I have heard it from Jepson and Ducie, and I know what the doctor thinks of it. Allow me to say your conduct was inexcusable. I would not blame you before the girls, but that is my opinion."
"Her silence was so provoking, you don't know, Robert——"
"I know that no provocation ought to have caused you to make the Bible the missile of your temper. It was an impious act. I shudder at it."
"I did not know it was the Bible."
"Mother, a Bible is known on sight. No other book looks like it. No form, no shape no color, can hide the Bible. There is a kind of divinity in this personality of the Book. I have often thought so."
"I shall sorrow for that act as long as I live, Robert. She made me do it. Yes, she did!"
"No, she did not."
"Why was she reading the Bible at that hour of the day? If it had been morning or night, I might have thought of it."
"Theodora reads the Bible at all hours."