Rising, she went to a window, leaning against it as if tired, and looking out into the darkness.
"But what can you do, all by yourself?"
"Very little; but a little is something. It isn't altogether the success or the failure that I'm thinking about; it's the principle."
"Oh, if you're going to live by principles—"
"We've got to live by something. When the world is coming down about our heads."
"If it's doing that, one man can't hold it up."
"No; but a good many men may. I'm not the only one who's trying."
"I never heard of any one trying it like that ... by going back to the foundational, as you call it."
"Oh, I think you have. The Man who more than any other has helped the human race did just that thing. You're strict about going to church on Sunday."
She was slightly shocked. "I presume you're not going to try to be like Him."