Now tell me: would you feel justified in accepting the position upon which you had set your heart _without_ confessing the thing; or would you feel in duty bound to speak, well knowing that it would in all human probability be the end of all your hopes?
I should like to have your opinion upon that point, please." "I can't see that I or anybody else could have other than the one," she replied.

"It is an age-old maxim, is it not, Mr.Cleek, that two wrongs cannot by any possibility constitute a right?
I should feel in duty bound, in honour bound, to speak, of course.

To do the other would be to obtain the position by fraud--to steal it, as a thief steals things that _he_ wants.

No sort of atonement is possible, is even worth the name, if it is backed up by deceit, Mr.Cleek." "Even though that deceit is the only thing that could give you your heart's desire?
The only thing that could open the Gates of Heaven for you ?" "The 'Gates of Heaven,' as you put it, can never be opened with a lie, Mr.Cleek.They might be opened by the very thing of which you speak--confession.

I think I should take my chances upon that.