'Yes.'

He says it with the calm ease of one who will not be dissuaded from his task.

'I am no architect either, nor a builder. But I will make this.'

If she were Catholic, he would have already asked her to hear his confession. She is not, so he never will. But simply the knowledge that there is a priest here...he does not know how to articulate the relief.

'I had thought this place Godless, and now I see it is not.'