‘Do you deny you love this woman with a love reserved for man and wife?’ ‘No, yes, I mean of course I love her.’ ‘I will read you the words of St Paul,’ announced the pastor, and he did, and many more words besides about unnatural passions and the mark of the demon. ‘To the pure all things are pure,’ I yelled at him. ‘It’s you not us.’ He turned to Melanie. ‘Do you promise to give up this sin and beg the Lord to forgive you?’ ‘Yes.’ She was trembling uncontrollably. I hardly heard what she said.
