And I knew enough already to be certain that the more I learned the more I should write and have published.

It was one of those things which had to be made public--if a fellow had a conscience about him and a pride in the decency of his profession.
"All this was going through my head as I sat there in his private office.

And he took my surprise and hesitation as symptoms of wavering and went at me, hard.

Of course I knew, he said, that the operation was absolutely within the law.

I did, but that didn't make it more honest or moral or just.