Oh! I hate him, worse even than I do my own, worse than you do yourself." Godfrey, thinking aloud, began to quote the Fourth Commandment.

She cut him short: "Honour my father!" she said.

"Why should we honour our fathers unless they are worthy of honour?
What have we to thank them for ?" "Life," suggested Godfrey.
"Why?
You believe that life comes from God, and so do I in a way.

If so, what has a father to do with it who is just a father and no more?
With mothers perhaps it is different, but you see I love my mother and he treats her like--like a dog, or worse," and her grey eyes filled with tears.

"However, it is your father we are talking of, and there is no commandment telling me to honour _him_.