"The Love that Purifies" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, and features the young gentleman Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves.

Aunt Dahlia's son Bonzo is there, as is Anstruther, a family friend, and Lord and Lady Snettisham.

Anstruther has offered a Good Conduct prize of five pounds to whichever boy behaves the best.

Aunt Dahlia bet her valuable chef Anatole against the Snettisham's kitchen-maid.

The Snettishams try to bribe Bonzo to misbehave, though they fail because he loves the actress Lillian Gish and wants to be worthy of her.

Later, Thos earns bonus points in the contest after he performs a good deed.

I gathered from his observations, sir, that he proposes to spend the remainder of his life trying to make himself worthy of her."

Sebastian is an outspoken child, and Jeeves feels that Thos will not tolerate insults from a boy younger than him.

The story was illustrated by Charles Crombie in the Strand and by James Montgomery Flagg in Cosmopolitan.