“It was for my own ends and not Brother Paul's that I helped him to break obedience, and so injure his health and hasten his death.”
“Your own?”
“I, too, had a sister in the world, and my heart was hungry for news of her.”
“A sister?”
“Some one nearer than a sister—and all my spiritual life has been a sham.”
“My son, my son!”
“Forgive me, Father. I shall love you and honour you and revere you always; but I must break my obedience and leave you, or I shall be a hypocrite and a liar and a cheat.”