"Intellect is no protection from sex any more than convention is..." "What is ?" she fired up.

"The Catholic Church or the maxims of Confucius ?" Amory looked up, rather taken aback.
"That's your panacea, isn't it ?" she cried.

"Oh, you're just an old hypocrite, too.

Thousands of scowling priests keeping the degenerate Italians and illiterate Irish repentant with gabble-gabble about the sixth and ninth commandments.

It's just all cloaks, sentiment and spiritual rouge and panaceas.