straight to the bull's-eye.

He glanced quickly at her, the hint of a frown drawing about his eyes.

"Mrs. Covil should have been more discreet. The authority of a priest in
these matters is a thing of delicate adjustment--the law for one may not
be the law for all. These are not matters to gossip of."

"So it seems. I was thinking of your opposite counsel to Mrs. Eversley."

"There--really, you know I read minds, at times--somehow I knew that
would be the next thing you'd speak of."

"Yes?"

"The circumstances are entirely different--I may add that--that any
intimation of inconsistency will be very unpleasing to me--very!"

"I can see that the circumstances are different--the Eversleys are not
what you would call 'important factors' in the Church--and besides--that
is a case of a wife leaving her husband."

"Nance--I'm afraid you're _not_ pleasing me--if I catch your drift. Must
I point out the difference--the spiritual difference? That misguided
woman wanted to desert her husband merely because he had hurt her
pride--her vanity--by certain alleged attentions to other women,
concerning the measure of which I had no knowledge. That was a case
where the cross must be borne for the true refining of that dross of
vanity from her soul. Her husband is of her class, and her life with him
will chasten her. While here--what have we here?"