It is not for me to say anything to my father about his own conscience; I must leave that alone.

But I am bound to speak of mine when occasion rises, and this is one of them....

I should be dishonouring and insulting you, sir, if I did not believe you when you said you would turn Protestant; and a man who says he will turn Protestant has done so already.

It was for this reason, then, and no other, that I did not answer you the other day; not because I wish to be disobedient to you, but because I must be obedient to God.

I did not lie to you, as I might have done, and say that I did not know who the priest was nor where mass was to be said.