Rosmer.

Ah——! Then you do not believe that purity of mind is to be found among the unbelieving and the emancipated? You do not believe that morality may be an instinctive law of their nature!

Kroll.

I have no great faith in the morality that is not founded on the teachings of the Church.

Rosmer.

And you mean this to apply to Rebecca and me? To the relation between us two——?

Kroll.

Not even out of consideration for you two can I depart from my opinion that there is no unfathomable gulf between free thought and—h’m——

Rosmer.

And what?