"Perchance it is but a means of drawing him within the toils." "It is like enough.

It will be the day on which the week of grace expires.

Would to God I could see my way more clearly! I am in a great strait betwixt mine own conscience and the authority of the Church.

How can I deliver up a faithful and devoted son of the Church to certain death, when my house is his only refuge and protection?
Yet how may I refuse obedience to my spiritual fathers and superiors, to whom I owe submission in all things, in right of their office, albeit as men I know them to be--faulty ?".
He paused, as if reluctant to put his thoughts into words even to his wife.

He was going through that mental and spiritual struggle which was speedily to do so great a work in the world--that struggle which led to the final fall of the religious houses in this land.