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"I am rather religiously inclined," said M. de Terremondre, "but I still think that the words spoken in Notre Dame by Père Ollivier were ill advised. And that is the general opinion."
"Of course," replied M. Lantaigne, "you blame him for having explained this disaster as a lesson given by God against pride and infidelity. You think him wrong in describing the favoured people as being suddenly punished for their faithlessness and rebellion. Ought one, then, to give up attempting to trace a cause for such terrible events?"