<p>Letter to Mrs Lockley: from Magdalen College, September 1949<br><br>I <b>don’t think</b> () [your objection to ‘setting yourself up as a judge’] <b>is</b> cowardly.</p><p>It <b>may spring</b> /form the fact //that you <b>are</b> the <span style="color: #f89009;">injured</span> party</p><p>and <b>have</b> a very proper conviction //that the plaintiff <b>cannot</b> also <b>be</b> on the Bench.</p><p> </p><p> I also quite <b>realize </b>that he <b>didn’t feel</b> the sin /as a Christian would:</p><p>but he <b>must</b>, as a man, <b>feel</b> [the dishonor of breaking a promise]. </p><p> </p><p>After all constancy in love <b>thunders </b>/at him /from every love-song /in the world,</p><p>quite apart from our mystical conception of marriage…<br><br>As you <b>say</b>, the thing <b>is </b>to rely only on God. </p><p> </p><p>The time <b>will come</b> /when you <b>will regard</b> all this misery/ as a small price to pay /for having been brought to the dependence.</p><p> </p><p>Meanwhile (don’t I know) the trouble <b>is</b> that relying on God <b>has to begin</b> /all over again /every day</p><p>/as if nothing had yet been done…<br><br>[The reason //why I <b>am saddled</b> /with many people’s trouble] <b>is</b>, I think, that I <b>have</b> no natural curiosity about private lives</p><p>and <b>am</b> therefore a good subject.</p><p>To anyone //who (in that sense) <b>enjoyed</b> it, it <b>would be</b> a dangerous poison.<br><br>From Letters of C. S. Lewis</p>
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