Drummle.
H'm! You remember the episode of the Jeweller's Son in the Arabian Nights? Of course you don't. Well, if your daughter lives, she can't escape—what you're afraid of. [Aubrey gives a half stifled exclamation of pain.] And when she does hear the story, surely it would be better that she should have some knowledge of the world to help her to understand it.
Aubrey.
Drummle.
To understand, to—to philosophise.
Aubrey.
To philosophise?
Drummle.
Philosophy is toleration, and it is only one step from toleration to forgiveness.