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.