You are only responsible in the immediate future for your share of duty, in doing the wisest and best thing which may present itself.

And if you can induce Donna Veronica to forgive your brother and your brother's wife, by telling her the truth without prevarication, you will have done something to atone for the past evil which, you cannot undo.

I am not preaching to you, my dear friend.

Pray look upon me as a man and not as a priest.

Indeed, I would rather that you should never think of me as a priest at all.