There is something pathetic to me in the little faults and tempers that irritate us now chiefly because they clash against our own weaknesses, and yet on the right guidance of which lies the whole making or marring of the child's life." "Doesn't guidance include punishment ?" "Yes, it includes it.

But it does not consist of it." Gerald still stood half turned from him, frowning out over the placid blue water.

"Ah," she said, "it chiefly consists of good example and that sort of thing, I suppose." "I think it consists chiefly of love," said Halloway, simply.
Gerald made no answer at first, then turned and looked at him almost defiantly.

Her changeable eyes seemed black as she raised them to his.
"Would you have thrown Olly's marbles into the lake ?" "No," replied Halloway, looking steadily back at her.
"Then you would have been very foolish," said Gerald, haughtily.

"It was the only way to touch him.