The Goddard family’s own case of the rule that the one you hate will be your saviour, told to show that a prejudice need not be about race or religion — it can be about money, and the poor can hold it against the rich as easily as the reverse. Neville’s father Joe, in Barbados, took the blow of blows: falsely accused, stripped of everything by the false accusations, and then avoided. Nobody came — those who were playing it safe, no one came home even to say how are you feeling, Joe? Joe sat alone. The one man who did come was the least likely by the family’s lights: wealthy, socially and financially prominent, English, cultured, a great athlete, a Blue at Cambridge, who had come to Barbados for his health years before and made a fortune. The exchange is short and is the whole story. Well, Joe, what can I do? — I have all these children to feed and the servants to feed and I have no money. — What do you want to do? — All I know is simply what I’ve done before, a grocery business. He went back to his office and instructed his people: Mr. Goddard will open up in the next month or so a business and I want you to extend credit to the limit. Whatever he orders you fill the order and no bill must be sent to him. When he has it he’ll pay. The numbers are given, which is rare: about forty to fifty thousand dollars of merchandise against no money at all; and by the time of telling, in excess of five hundred thousand dollars a year of business with that firm. That was their initial investment. And the loyalty that followed is recorded as absolute: when the man died and his son took over, if his firm had a match to sell and it was a cent more per box than any competitor, don’t come near the Goddards. He and he alone sold us the match. Neville’s reading is the motif’s: if my father had any prejudice of the wealthy people of the world — for he had nothing as a boy — that building collapsed and crumbled. PROVENANCE: coined from a single telling. Probes on extend credit, falsely accused, Blue at Cambridge and the grocery exchange return 1832 and nothing else. It is coined rather than held because it is the lecture’s second demonstration of its thesis, argued rather than mentioned, and because it is the only account in the corpus so far of how the family business was refinanced. Confidence 0.95; a lane that finds a second telling should raise it and correct this paragraph.