And man has the Moral Sense.

You understand?
He has the moral Sense.

That would seem to be difference enough between us, all by itself." He stopped there, as if that settled the matter.

I was sorry, for at that time I had but a dim idea of what the Moral Sense was.

I merely knew that we were proud of having it, and when he talked like that about it, it wounded me, and I felt as a girl feels who thinks her dearest finery is being admired and then overhears strangers making fun of it.
For a while we were all silent, and I, for one, was depressed.