It was necessary that I should do it.

If I had consulted you, you would yourself have told me that it was better to renounce the priesthood than to remain a priest without faith or honour." "Yes, yes," Abbe Rose gently responded, "you no longer had any faith left.

I suspected it.

And your rigidity and saintliness of life, in which I detected such great despair, made me anxious for you.

How many hours did I not spend at times in striving to calm you! And you must listen to me again, you must still let me save you.