Mr. Bell blew his nose ostentatiously before answering. Then he said:
"He gave you strength to do what your conscience told you was right; and I don't see that we need any higher or holier strength than that; or wisdom either. I know I have not that much; and yet men set me down in their fool's books as a wise man; an independent character; strong-minded, and all that cant. The veriest idiot who obeys his own simple law of right, if it be but in wiping his shoes on a door-mat, is wiser and stronger than I. But what gulls men are!"
There was a pause. Mr. Hale spoke first, in continuation of his thought:
"About Margaret."

'He gave you strength to do what your conscience told you was right,' said Mr. Bell; 'and I don't see that we need any higher or holier strength than that; or wisdom either.'
There was a pause. Mr. Hale spoke first: 'About Margaret. 