The question of the moral aspect of the case, which involved the religious belief in which I had been reared, was not one to trouble me; for the issues, and the causes that lay behind them, were not within my power even to comprehend.

The doubt of the success of the Great Experiment was such a doubt as exists in all enterprises which have great possibilities.

To me, whose life was passed in a series of intellectual struggles, this form of doubt was a stimulus, rather than deterrent.

What then was it that made for me a trouble, which became an anguish when my thoughts dwelt long on it?
I was beginning to doubt Margaret! What it was that I doubted I knew not.

It was not her love, or her honour, or her truth, or her kindness, or her zeal.