Caleb was surrounded by the ruin of his life's greatest and one and only accomplishment worth mentioning and he thought about the daughter who had done this to him. Perhaps his sins were too vile and redemption was beyond his reach. The child he had sired from an unholy union had destroyed his, as she had so well put it, temple of penitence. He had built a monument to honour the divine masters of man and to signify the proper humility and lowliness of man and his cursed child had destroyed with little effort. Perhaps Caleb thought the church had really been a selfish monument to himself. He had built a grant beacon to signal how great his shame was and the profoundness of his need for forgiveness. He had turned his humility and sin into egotism and declared to the world how great a sinner
