"It is easy to see where you got your principles!"
"Less easy than you think," Philip answered. "I got them from no living man or woman, though I grant you, Lois showed me the way to them. I got them from the Bible, old friend."
Tom glared at the speaker.
"Have you given up your cigars too?"
Mr. Dillwyn laughed out, and Lois said somewhat exultantly,
"Yes, Mr. Caruthers."
"I am sure I wish you would too!" said Tom's wife deploringly to her husband. "I think if anything's horrid, it's the after smell of tobacco."
"But the first taste of it is all the comfort a fellow gets in this world," said Tom.
"No fellow ought to say that," his friend returned.
"The Bible!" Tom repeated, as if it were a hard pill to swallow.
"Philip Dillwyn quoting that old authority!"