“Giving it where it will do no good.”
“God gives to the bad as well as the good?”
“It is one thing to give to the bad, and another to give where it will do no good. God knows the endless result; I should know but the first link of its chain. I must act by the knowledge granted me. God may give money in punishment: should I dare do that?”
“Well, you're quite beyond me!”
“Never mind, then. What you and I have to do is to be friends, and work together. You will find I mean well!”
“I believe you do, Richard; but we don't somehow seem to be in the same world.”
“If we are true, that will not keep us apart. If we both work for the good of the people, we must come together.”
“To tell you the truth, Richard, knowing you had given me the land, I could not put up with interference. I am afraid we should quarrel, and then I should seem ungrateful.”
“What would you say to our managing the estates together for a year or two? Would not that be the way to understand each other?”
“Perhaps. I must think about it.”