"It was a pity, wasn't it?
I was silly and began to cry." "I expect that was it," Joan confessed.

"It interferes with our reason at times." "It was only a little thing, of course, that," she answered.

"But I've been thinking it must be that that's at the bottom of it all; and that is why God lets there be weak things--children and little animals and men and women in pain, that we feel sorry for, so that people like you and Robert and so many others are willing to give up all your lives to helping them.

And that is what He wants." "Perhaps God cannot help there being weak things," answered Joan.
"Perhaps He, too, is sorry for them." "It comes to the same thing, doesn't it, dear ?" she answered.

"They are there, anyhow.