Kitty looked at him curiously.
"I prefer to see things as they are."
The Dean sighed.
"That none of us can do, my dear Lady Kitty. No one can satisfy his intelligence. But religion speaks to the will—and it is the only thing between us and the void. Don't tamper with it! It is soon gone."
A satirical expression passed over the face of his companion.
"Mine was gone before we had been a month married. William killed it."
The Dean exclaimed:
"I hear always of his interest in religious matters!"
"He cares for nothing so much—and he doesn't believe one single word of anything! I was brought up in a convent, you know—but William laughed it all out of me."
"Dear Lady Kitty!"