"But it ought not to be true."
"What are you going to do about it? One must do as everybody else does;
I suppose."
"Must one? That is the very question."
"What can you do else, as long as you haven't your bread to get?"
"I believe the people who have their bread to get have the best of it. But there must be some use in the world, I suppose, for those who are under no such necessity. Did you ever hear that Miss—Lothrop's family were strictly religious?"
"No—yes, I have," said Tom. "I know she is."
"That would not have suited you."
"Yes, it would. Anything she did would have suited me. I have a great respect for religion, Philip."
"What do you mean by religion?"
"I don't know—what everybody means by it. It is the care of the spiritual part of our nature, I suppose."