July moon? Tell me, Loskiel, you who are called among us blameless and unstained, is there no hope for a guilty man to shrive himself and walk henceforward upright?”

“I can not answer you,” I said dully. “Nor do I know how, of such a business, a man may be shriven, or what should be his amends� . It all seems pitiful and sad to me — a matter perplexing, unhappy, and far beyond my solving� . I know it is the fashion of the times to regard such affairs lightly, making of them nothing� . Much I have heard, little learned, save that the old lessons seem to be the truest; the old laws the best. And that our cynical and modern disregard of them make one’s salvation none the surer, one’s happiness none the safer.”

I heard Boyd sigh heavily, where