"Do you think I can, Mr. Digby?" said the girl looking earnestly at him.
"I am sure of it."
"But—do I know how?"
"I will give you an unfailing recipe," said Mr. Digby smiling.
"'Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them';
and for details, study the 13th chapter of the first epistle to the
Corinthians."
"Is that the chapter about charity?"
"About love. The word means love, not charity."
"Mr. Digby, it is very hard to act as if you loved people, when you do not."
"True," said he smiling. "That is what the world means by good manners.
But what Christians should mean by that term is the real thing."
"And I do not think I can," Rotha went on.
"Do not try to make believe anything. But the courtesy of good manners you can give to everybody."