One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)

by Ellis Peters

But I value devotion and fidelity, and doubt if it matters whether the object falls short. What you do and what you are is what matters.

In such dreadful times as these no one can do more than choose his own road according to his conscience, and bear the consequences of his choice, whatever they may be.”

The trouble with me, he thought unhappily, is that I have been about the world long enough to know that God’s plans for us, however infallibly good, may not take the form that we expect and demand.