Man leaves a weed to grow unheeded or roots it up but you are a noble tree, and I am like the gardener who has forgotten to provide it with a prop, and who is now thankful to have detected a bend that reminds him of his neglect.

You look at me enquiringly, and I can see in your eyes that I seem to you a severe judge.

Of what are you accused?
You have suffered an institution of the past to be set aside.

It does not matter--so the short-sighted and heedless think; but I say to you, you have doubly transgressed, because the wrong-doer was the king's daughter, whom all look up to, great and small, and whose actions may serve as an example to the people.

On whom then must a breach of the ancient institutions lie with the darkest stain if not on the highest in rank?
In a few days it will be said the paraschites are men even as we are, and the old law to avoid them as unclean is folly.