"Experience?
Of course that is the only way we learn anything." John again sprang to his feet, and again he sat down beside the girl.

He had so recently received forgiveness for his own sins that he dared not be unforgiving toward Dorothy.

He did not speak, and she remained silent, willing to allow time for the situation to take its full effect.

The wisdom of the serpent is black ignorance compared with the cunning of a girl in Dorothy's situation.

God gives her wit for the occasion as He gives the cat soft paws, sharp claws, and nimbleness.