'What you call graciousness, Hester, is an obligation of which religion knows nothing,' she said after a pause.
'I don't know why it shouldn't.

Are we to be divided, mamma, because of religion ?' 'If you were alone----' 'But I am not alone.

Oh, mamma, mamma, do you not know that I am going to become a mother ?' 'My child!' 'And you will not be with me, because you think that you and John differ as to religious forms.' 'Forms!' she said.

'Forms! Is the spirit there?
By their fruits ye shall know them.

I ask you yourself whether his life as you have seen it is such as I should think conformable with the Word of God ?' 'Whose life is so ?' 'But an effort may be made.