The main idea of confession, I take it, is gettin' at the facts.

I'm ready to give 'em if you'll take 'em out here, now.

If you're willing to drop the Church and confessional, and all that sort o' thing, I, on my side, am willing to give up the absolution, and all that sort o' thing.

You might," he added, with an unconscious touch of pathos in the suggestion, "heave in a word or two of advice after I get through; for instance, what YOU'D do in the circumstances, you see! That's all.

But that's as you please.