And beyond all that, deep down also in his heart he knew it was the only way, the wise, simple, Heaven-directed way.
The practical, broad-shouldered, common-sense children of this world would have weighed many things one against the other.

They would have taken into account sentimentally, morally, pharisaically, or cynically, according to their various attitudes towards life, the relations between Emmy and Mordaunt Prince which had led to this tragic situation.

But for Septimus her sin scarcely existed.

When a man is touched by an angel's feather he takes an angel's view of mortal frailties.
He danced his jostled way up Holborn till the City Temple loomed through the brown air.

It struck a chord of association.