"Is there no charity?
Isn't it understood ?" "Of course it is! In the present instance I can offer it and you can't, or shouldn't.

There are unwritten laws governing human conduct.

Who invented them?
Nobody knows.

But woe to those who disregard them! Of course, basically it is all wrong; and sometimes God must laugh at our ideas of rectitude.

But to live at peace with your neighbour...." Ruth brushed her eyes with one hand and with the other signed for the spinster to stop.