Anthony raised his head and broke out into vehement speech, which she welcomed gladly after the long silence of utter depression.
"They made it easy for us.

They sought to win us by gentle methods.
They knew that the most of us loved Holy Church, and were loath indeed to be divorced from her communion.

They did not bid us in so many words to deny those things which we have held--the right of every man to hold in his hand the Word of God, and to read and study it for himself; but they made us perform an act which in the eyes of the world will be taken to mean as much--to mean that we acknowledge the sinfulness of circulating that precious, living Word, and are ready to cast it into the flames like an unholy and corrupt thing.
"And I consented.

I let them persuade me.

I let mine eyes be blinded.