“The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely entrusted.”

“What power?”

“That of saying of any strange, unsanctioned line of action⁠—‘Let it be right.’ ”

“ ‘Let it be right’⁠—the very words: you have pronounced them.”

“ May it be right then,” I said, as I rose, deeming it useless to continue a discourse which was all darkness to me; and, besides, sensible that the character of my interlocutor was beyond my penetration; at least, beyond its present reach; and feeling the uncertainty, the vague sense of insecurity, which accompanies a conviction of ignorance.

“Where are you going?”