"I am very sorry for him," Olive said a little obstinately.
"Be sorry, then. Be just as sorry as you can. But, for heaven's sake,
don't tell him so," Dolph retorted rather mercilessly. "If he's ever
going to amount to anything, he must be brought up with a round turn,
not coddled and treated as a victim of untoward circumstance. If he
behaves like this over a growing pain in his theology, what do you
suppose he'd do in Opdyke's place?"
Olive struggled to regain her hauteur.
"The cases aren't parallel, Dolph," she said. "One is a physical
matter; the other concerns the spirit."