Giovanni's answer astonished her.
"Yes," said he.

"I doubt myself.

Not, however, in the way you suppose.
I fear I am a purely intellectual being, and that I exaggerate the importance my views may have in the sight of God.

I fear I do not live up to my views.

I fear my indignation is too great against those who do not share them, against my persecutors, against that Swiss Abbe who came here with Dane, and probably talked of what was then said in our midst as he should not have done, and in places where he should have kept silent.