Or, at least, it seems to me that such was society's attitude.
But the Bishop, in spite of the gentleness and purity of his spirit, was possessed of guile.

He apprehended clearly his danger.

He saw himself caught in the web, and he tried to escape from it.

Denied help from his friends, such as father and Ernest and I could have given, he was left to battle for himself alone.

And in the enforced solitude of the sanitarium he recovered.