Not for Chaffee Thayer Sluss to grasp the true meaning of it all.

His brain was not big enough.

Men led dual lives, it was true; but say what you would, and in the face of his own erring conduct, this was very bad.
On Sunday, when he went to church with his wife, he felt that religion was essential and purifying.

In his own business he found himself frequently confronted by various little flaws of logic relating to undue profits, misrepresentations, and the like; but say what you would, nevertheless and notwithstanding, God was God, morality was superior, the church was important.

It was wrong to yield to one's impulses, as he found it so fascinating to do.