I hate scandal--but there is no harm in remarking on the queer ways of your neighbours: anyone who likes can remark on mine.

Even when you are old and done and waiting for the summons it isn't wrong surely to get amusement out of the other pilgrims--if you can.

Do you know your _Pilgrim's Progress_, Pamela?
Do you remember where Christiana and the others reach the Land of Beulah?
It is the end of the journey, and they have nothing to do but to wait, while the children go into the King's gardens and gather there sweet flowers....

It is all true.

I know, for I have reached the Land of Beulah.