"Not at all. Quite the contrary. My certainties are on his side. My sympathies are on yours."
"Because you think I need them."
"Because I think you may."
"In case I—"
"In case you should condemn yourself in the thing you're going to allow."
"But what's it to be?"
"That's for you to settle with yourself."
He was silent a minute. When he spoke it was with some conviction. "I should like to do the right thing, by Jove!—the straight thing—if I only knew what it was."
"Oh, there'll be no trouble about that. In the Street called Straight, my son, there are lights to show the way."