"How can we measure sins and decide which ones are big and which little? Perhaps Mr. Heath was horribly tempted to commit this one. We do not know. We are not his judges. The thing for us to do is to help him out of the mess he is in."
"Help him?"
"Get him off. Aid him to escape."
"Believing him guilty—you would do that?"
"Surely I would."
"You mean you would help him to evade the law? The punishment such wrongdoing merits?"
Emphatically, Sylvia nodded her curls.
"I'd help him to get away from those who are tracking him down just as I'd help a fox to escape from the hunters."
"Regardless of right or wrong?"