a knife edge. It is for this reason that I suggest that the problem of reconciling God and a wife is not something that ought to be attempted only by Augustine and Peter Abelard, but by everyone who lives in a semi-detached house in the suburb of an industrial town. It is an intensely practical solution to an important everyday problem; and the object to be achieved is the replacement of an incomplete mutual confidence with absolute mutual trust, so that the marital happiness of the couple need no longer be at the mercy of circumstance.
