Acts of love within a friendship reproduce the pattern. Friendship’s love is not due anyone in particular, not at the beginning. At the start, it always comes as grace and gift. And yet once given and then returned, it creates a society, a friendship, with its own orders and norms that justice honors and safeguards. Some acts of love will continue to be gratuitous, but others will be constrained by those norms. They will be requirements of the relationship that love has created. Again, if this is right, then, as with tolerance, we must refer to both what is given and what is due in an account of forbearance. Some of its acts come as gifts, as love’s blessings that outstrip what is owed. Others can be due a friend, due by right given the relationship they share, and the love that forbears can be constrained by norm.