Surely He has more responsibility towards somebody He has made than that somebody has towards Him.

That's only common sense, it seems to me." The vicar thought he had never had such an unmanageable penitent to deal with since he took orders.

"But how about sin ?" he suggested, shifting his ground.

"Have you no sense of sin ?" "I'm almost afraid not," acknowledged Austin, with well-bred concern.
"Ought I to have ?" "We all ought to have," replied the vicar sternly.

"We have all sinned, and come short of the glory of God." "I don't see how we could have done otherwise," remarked Austin, who was getting rather bored.