“Well! there would be a great deal of pleasure. What else would you have?”
David made no answer.
“Davie means that there is something besides one’s pleasure to be considered in this world,” said Frank.
“David means that Jem can find pleasure and profit without going so far for them,” said Mrs Inglis.
“David is a young prig,” said Mr Philip to himself, and as they were going home he said it to his brother in decided terms.
“That’s your idea of it, is it?” said Frank. “You know just about as much of Davie and Aunt Mary, and that sort of people, as I know about the Emperor of China. I know there is such a person, and that is all I do know.”
Philip laughed.
“It is never too late to learn, and if they have no objection, I mean to know them better.”
“They are not your kind of people,” said Frank, decidedly.
“You mean they are very good and religious and all. I am not a heathen or a Turk, Frank, my boy.”