"Come tell us what you think, Wint'rop," said Mr. Herder.
"I think, sir, I should live to be happy."
"You do!" said the naturalist.
"And I think happiness should be sought in doing all one can, first for oneself, and then for other people."
"That will do," said Mr. Herder. "I agree wiz you."
"You are not apt to do first for yourself," said Rufus, with a tender sort of admission-making.
"I am not sure that first for oneself," said the naturalist musing.
"Yes sir — or could one ever do much for the world?"
"Dat is true; you are right!"
"Then at any rate one is to put other people's happiness before one's own?" said Elizabeth with a mixed expression of incredulity and discontent.