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"The Bishop is staying with me over the wedding, and he is in such a
fury that . . . Don't worry. It will be all right. But . . ."
"Yes?"
"Did you see young Martin Conrad while you were in Rome?"
I answered that I did.
"And did anything pass between you . . . about your marriage, I mean?"
I told him all that I had said to Martin, and all that Martin had said
to me.
"Because he has written a long letter to the Bishop denouncing it, and
calling on him to stop it."
"To stop it?"
"That's so. He says it is nothing but trade and barter, and if the
Church is willing to give its blessing to such rank commercialism, let
it bless the Stock Exchange, let it sanctify the slave market."
"Well?"
"The Bishop threatens to tell your father. 'Who is this young man,' he
says, 'who dares to . . .' But if I thought there was nothing more to
your marriage than . . . If I imagined that what occurred in the case of
your dear mother . . . But that's not all."
"Not all?"
"No. Martin has written to me too, saying worse--far worse.


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