I trust you.' And indeed Alfred was to be trusted if ever a boy was.

It is a remarkable thing, but I cannot remember a single occasion of dishonesty on Alfred's part.

'A white lie,' he would often say, 'is a lie, and a lie is a sin--white or black, always a sin'; and I remember that he would often put mother to a serious inconvenience by his telling callers that she was in when she had wished it to be said that she was not at home.

He felt it his serious duty, and so he told Mother.

'Don't ask me to tell a lie, Mother,' I remember his saying.