"You will always have the courage to do," she said, "right or wrong in a great manner." "Am I wrong to seek--" "Hush! I know.

It is what you must thrust aside or break to reach it, Karl.

The thing itself is not wrong, but you will go about it wrongly.
You can not help that." He did not reply.

Perhaps she was right.

Indeed, was she not herself an example of it?
If there was one thing in his complex career that he regretted more than another it was the deception of this woman.