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That's Irish, but it's
true enough, though. You must conquer this temptation, my child; you
must fight it and overcome it."
"But I've tried and tried and I cannot," I said.
And then I told him the story of my struggle--how love had been no
happiness to me but only a cruel warfare, how I had suffered and prayed
and gone to mass and confession, yet all to no purpose, for my affection
for Martin was like a blazing fire which nothing could put out.
Father Dan's hands and lips were trembling while I spoke and I could see
that he was shuddering with pity for me, so I went on to say that if God
had put this pure and holy love into my heart could it be wrong--
"Stop a minute," cried Father Dan. "Who says God put it there? And who
informed you it was pure and holy? Let us see where we are. Come, now.
You say the Bishop told you that you could never be divorced under any
circumstances?"
"Yes."
"Yet you wish to leave your husband?"
"How can I help it? The life I have been living is too horrible."
"Never mind that now.


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