You men and women, who judge this Bella Bassett, be firm, and do not let her amiable qualities or her good intentions blind you in a plain matter of right and wrong: be charitable, and ask yourselves how often in your lives you have seen yourselves, or any other human being, resist a terrible temptation.
My experience is, that we resist other people's temptations nobly, and succumb to our own.
So let me end with a line of England's gentlest satirist—
“Heaven be merciful to us all, sinners as we be.”
THE END