"Not exactly, but it was that thought which smoothed all difficulties."
"Could you have signed without it?"
"How can you ask me the question? of course."
"Well, do tell me, then, what was your ground?"
"Oh, I had many grounds. I can't recollect in a moment what happened some time ago."
"Oh, then it was a matter of difficulty; indeed, you said so just now."
"Not at all: my only difficulty was, not about myself, but how to state the matter to other people."
"What! some one suspected you?"
"No, no; you are quite mistaken. I mean, for instance, the Article says that we are justified by faith only; now the Protestant sense of this statement is point blank opposite to our standard divines: the question was, what I was to say when asked my sense of it."
"I understand," said Charles; "now tell me how you solved the problem."