'Mr. Pitt!'—said Betty, and stopped.
'He has a wife and nine children.'
'What did you do?'
'What would you have done?'
'I don't know! I never thought it was my business to supplement all the world's failures.'
'Suppose for a moment it were Christ the Lord himself in either of these situations we have been looking at?'
'I cannot suppose it!'
'How would you feel about ministry then?'
Betty was silent, choked with discomfort now.
'Would you think you could do enough? But, Miss Frere, He says it is Himself, in every case of His servants; and what is done to them He counts as done to Himself. And so it is!'