"Alas!" said the priest; "happy is the man who acknowledges it."
"But that is not all; not only am I a great sinner myself, as I said, but I have led others into sin."
"Is there any way of undoing the harm you have done?"
"I think so, father, I think so. She whom I dragged with me into the pit was an innocent young girl."
"You seduced her, did you?"
"Seduced; yes, father, that is the word."
"And you wish to atone for your sin?"
"That at least is my intention."
"There is but one way to do it."
"I know it well, and that is why I have been undecided so long: if there were two ways I would have chosen the other."