The general said:
"What was the secret grief your mother had? In 1912? She died of it. She wrote to me just before her death and said she had great troubles. And begged me to look after you, very specially! Why did she do that?" He paused and meditated. He asked: "How do you define Anglican sainthood? The other fellows have canonizations, all shipshape like Sandhurst examinations. But us Anglicans . . . I've heard fifty persons say your mother was a saint. She was. But why?"
Tietjens said:
"It's the quality of harmony, sir. The quality of being in harmony with your own soul. God having given you your own soul you are then in harmony with Heaven."
The general said:
"Ah, that's beyond me. . . . I suppose you will refuse any money I leave you in my will?"
Tietjens said:
"Why, no, sir."
The general said:
"But you refused your father's money. Because he believed things against you. What's the difference?"