He took up the conversation exactly at that point to which it best suited him to return, namely, there where he had made the first false step.
"Therefore, my dear Hugh, I have now given you in detail the true history of the vision, making it clear that we owe it, alas! to earthly devotion, rather than to Divine interposition--though indeed the one may well be the means used by the other.

It remains for us to consider, and to decide upon, the best line to take with Mora in order to safeguard most surely her peace of mind, and permanently to secure her happiness." "I have considered, Reverend Father," said the Knight, simply; "and I have decided." "What have you decided to do, my son ?" questioned Symon of Worcester, in his smoothest tones.
"To make known to Mora, so soon as I return, the entire truth." The Bishop cast his eyes upward, to see whether the banner still waved.
It did.
Undoubtedly there must be a current of air among the rafters.
"And what effect do you suppose such a communication will have, my son, upon the mind of your wife ?" "I am not called to face suppositions, Reverend Father; I am simply confronted by facts." "Precisely, my son, precisely," replied the Bishop, pressing his finger-tips together, and raising them to his lips.

"Yet even while dealing with causes, it is well sometimes to consider effects, lest they take us wholly unawares.

Do you realise that, as your wife felt justified in leaving the Nunnery and wedding you, solely by reason of our Lady's miraculously accorded permission, when she learns that that permission was not miraculous, she will cease to feel justified ?" "I greatly fear it," said the Knight.
"Do you yourself now consider that she was not justified ?" "Nay!" answered the Knight, with sudden vehemence.

"Always, since I learned how we had been tricked by her sister, I have held her to be rightfully mine.