Religion (I understand Mr.Godfrey to say, between the corks and the carving) meant love.

And love meant religion.

And earth was heaven a little the worse for wear.

And heaven was earth, done up again to look like new.

Earth had some very objectionable people in it; but, to make amends for that, all the women in heaven would be members of a prodigious committee that never quarrelled, with all the men in attendance on them as ministering angels.