Where does grace end and abuse begin?

Don't ya just love questions like this??? 

For your assistance: 

Definitions: 

• GRACE: 

  1.	elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action.

  2.	a pleasing or attractive quality or endowment.

  3.	favor or good will.

  4.	a manifestation of favor, esp. by a superior: It was only through the dean's grace that I wasn't expelled from school.

  5.	mercy; clemency; pardon: an act of grace.

• ABUSE: 

  1.	to use wrongly or improperly; misuse: to abuse one's authority.

  2.	to treat in a harmful, injurious, or offensive way: to abuse a horse; to abuse one's eyesight.

  3.	to speak insultingly, harshly, and unjustly to or about; revile; malign.

  4.	to commit sexual assault upon.

  5.	Obsolete. to deceive or mislead.

Does that help?  So ... Where does grace end and abuse begin?

~ B