"Why, naturally I hoped that a disturbance might be stopped."

"Is it natural?" questioned Erica. "I should have thought it more
natural for you to think with your own party."

"But peace and justice and freedom of speech must all stand before
party questions."

"Yet you think that we are wrong, and that Christianity is right?"

"Yes, but to my mind perfect justice is part of Christianity."

"Oh," said Erica, in a tone which meant unutterable things.

"You think that Christians do not show perfect justice to you?"
said Charles Osmond, reading her thoughts.

"I can't say I think they do," she replied. Then, suddenly firing
up at the recollection of her afternoon's experiences, she said:
"They are not just to us, though they preach justice; they are not
loving, though they talk about love. If they want us to think
their religion true, I wonder they don't practice it a little more
and preach it less. What is the use of talking of 'brotherly
kindness and charity,' when they hardly treat us like human beings,
when they make up wicked lies about us, and will hardly let us sit
in the same room with them!"

"Come, now, we really are sitting in the same room," said Charles
Osmond, smiling.