Of course, I did not approve of people stealing out of self-interest or going to bed with someone for the pure pleasure of it; but if these became quite gratuitous acts, acts of desperation and revolt – and, of course, quite imaginary – I was prepared to stomach all the vices, the rapes, and the assassinations you might care to mention. Doing wrong was the most uncompromising way of repudiating all connexions with respectable people.
