I advise this really in your own interests.
Why, my dear fellow, you'll convert her in half the time if she is with you.

What?
And don't you see that your present attitude will only drive her further away?
You are really going against your own interests." "Do not play the part of the Tempter," John said gently; "it ill becomes Christ's minister to do that.

Would you have me pray for guidance, and then refuse to follow it when it comes?
God will give me the strength and courage to make her suffer that she may be saved." Dr.Howe stared at him for a moment.

Then he said, "I--I do not need you to teach me my duty as Christ's minister, sir; it would be more fitting that you should concern yourself with your duty as a husband." The vein in his forehead was swollen with wrath.

"The way in which you pride yourself upon devising the most exquisite pain for your wife is inhuman,--it is devilish! And you drag her family into the scandal of it, too." John was silent.
Again Dr.Howe realized that he must control himself; if he got into a passion, there would be an end of bringing about a reconciliation.
"You made me forget myself," he said.