If your conscience troubles you over a little thing like adultery, give it ten minutes in the confessional and a few Paternosters.” “You kn-know, we Protestants believe in feeling our guilt and not just paying it off with a few routine prayers.” “This is why the English are too guilty to make good lovers,” Lili declared. “Except in times of war, since war gives even the English an excuse to enjoy themselves. When life could end at any moment on the point of a German bayonet, never allow middle-class morality to get in the way of a good romp with a married ex-convict in tweed.”
