So now you see why he says I shall not come back to him until I have found the truth." Then Dr.Howe burst into a torrent of indignant remonstrance.

A clergyman send his wife from him because she does not believe some dogma! Were we back in the dark ages?
It was too monstrously absurd! If the idiots he preached to forced him to do it, let him leave them; let him come to Ashurst.

The rector would build him a meeting-house, and he could preach his abominable doctrine to anybody who was fool enough to go and hear him.
Dr.Howe was walking hastily up and down the room, gesticulating as he talked.

Helen's patient eyes followed him.

Again and again she tried to point out to him her husband's intense sincerity, and the necessity which his convictions forced upon him.