"I think you were wrong to tell him to go back. Didn't you encourage him to go back to the work without feeling the religion?"
"Perhaps I did. Did Eugene tell you that?"
"Yes."
"I'll never say anything to a lover again."
"Didn't you tell him to use his work for personal ends—for ambition, and so on?"
"Oh, in a way. I had to stir him up—I had to tide him over a bad hour."
"That was very wrong. It was teaching him to degrade himself."
"He can pursue his work in perfect sincerity. I found that out."
"Can he if he does it with a low motive?"
"My dear girl, whose motives are not mixed? Whose heart is single?