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"'For I remember my fault, and my sin is ever before me,'" murmured Exalted.

"And you would have called her Sin had I not restrained you."

"Would you have me forget the sin of which she is the fruit?"

"Nay, forget it not, but confess it and be forgiven, and there let it rest. Why visit it upon an innocent babe who had no part in your iniquity?"

"No part! But she is my iniquity. She is my everlasting condemnation."

"Nay, in your soul is your iniquity. What says the Book of Enoch? 'And say not to thyself: I have Adam to my transgression, for I say unto thee that each one of us hath been the Adam of his own soul.'"

For a moment Exalted looked angry and baffled. Then he realized that the Parson had not quoted from Holy Writ.

"What is this Book of Enoch that you speak of? It an't in Scripture, of that I'm certain sure."

Gervase seemed confused.

"So. I was forgetting. I quote from a book I studied when I was in France—a learned book of the Jews."

"Is it the same Enoch that is in Scripture, who was not found because God had translated him?"