But, fortunately for you, you had already started.

There are really some good people who will ferret out heretics in Paradise itself! Now you tell me that your conscience is quiet.

Am I not then to believe what the letter says ?" Don Clemente replied that there had certainly been neither heretics nor schismatics at Signor Selva's house.

They had talked of the Church, of her ills, and of possible remedies, but in the same spirit in which the Abbot himself might speak.
"No, my son," the Abbot answered.

"It is not for me to reflect upon the ills of the Church, or upon possible remedies.