"I don't agree with you," said Henry.
"Of course not."
"I have cause to know that you are wrong, sir."
"You think you have," the merchant replied.
"It is true," Henry admitted, "that we shall always have the poor with us."
"I thought so," said Witherspoon.
"But it is not true that an attempt to aid them is harmful. Their condition has steadily improved since history "—
"You are a sentimentalist."
"I am more than that," said Henry. "I am a man."
"Hum! And are you more than that?"