“I agree with her,” said David, emphatically. “It ought to be stopped if — ”

“If it ought to be, it will be. What do you think she said to me about it when I went to reason with her? ‘If Christ can forgive and stand such as he, I can. It is laid on my soul to do this.’ I had no more to say.”

“That is one point of view, but we mustn’t lose sight of the practical, either. To be his wife and bear his children — I call it a waste, a — ”

“Yes, yes. So it is.” And what more could the bishop say? After a little, he added, “But still we must not forget that he, too, is a human soul and has a value as great as hers.”

“According to your viewpoint, but not to mine —