'
The recognition of the One in the Many had as great a charm for
Baruch as it had for Socrates, and Clara spoke with the ease of a
person whose habit it was to deal with principles and
generalisations.
'Yes, and mere toleration, to say nothing of opposition, at least so
far as persons are concerned, is seldom necessary. It is generally
thought that what is called dramatic power is a poetic gift, but it
is really an indispensable virtue to all of us if we are to be
happy.'
Mrs Caffyn did not take much interest in abstract statements. 'You
remember,' she said, turning to Baruch, 'that man Chorley as has the
big farm on the left-hand side just afore you come to the common? He
wasn't a Surrey man: he came out of the shires.'
'Very well.'
'He's married that Skelton girl; married her the week afore I left.
There isn't no love lost there, but the girl's father said he'd
murder him if he didn't, and so it come off. How she ever brought
herself to it gets over me. She has that big farm-house, and he's
made a fine drawing-room out of the livin' room on the left-hand side
as you go in, and put a new grate in the kitchen and turned that into
the livin' room, and they does the cooking in the back kitchen, but
for all that, if I'd been her, I'd never have seen his face no more,
and I'd have packed off to Australia.'
'Does anybody go near them?'
'Near them! of course they do, and, as true as I'm a-sittin' here,
our parson, who married them, went to the breakfast.
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