And I saw that Ernest noted it and was amused.

He looked slowly about him, and I saw the glint of laughter in his eyes.
"I am not versed in the courtesies of ecclesiastical controversy," he began, and then hesitated with modesty and indecision.
"Go on," they urged, and Dr.Hammerfield said: "We do not mind the truth that is in any man.

If it is sincere," he amended.
"Then you separate sincerity from truth ?" Ernest laughed quickly.
Dr.Hammerfield gasped, and managed to answer, "The best of us may be mistaken, young man, the best of us." Ernest's manner changed on the instant.

He became another man.
"All right, then," he answered; "and let me begin by saying that you are all mistaken.

You know nothing, and worse than nothing, about the working class.