"'I'm sure there is,' she said gently."
"'It's only that George Runton is such a cad, and I said it served him right to go down in his class—'"
"'Well? Did you get blamed for saying that?' she asked."
"'By nobody but myself. I had a sort of feeling it wasn't nice of me: but I don't know why exactly. It did serve him right, and yet—'"
"'I know!' said Mary, very tenderly; 'it wasn't like "His compassions" was it?'"
"'His compassions?' asked Rollo, equally gently, for this little suffering sister was his pet and darling."
"'Don't you know it says, "His compassions fail not; they are new every morning." I'm often glad of that.'"
"'Why particularly?'"
"'Because we're often hard in our thoughts on other people—at least I am. But I'm often glad to remember that God is sorry for our mistakes without being hard, and He makes even our mistakes work round for our good if we will trust Him.'"
"Rollo looked dissatisfied."