If his squire irritated him this much, the saints alone could say what a woman would do.

"Doubt is the dry rot of faith," as one Indian saint has said.

This woman lying across his lap wanted him, and he would have had to be more than a saint to say no.

In their way, poets and saints and artists say the same thing.

And my saint said the League knew that story.

The saint nodded and said, "The creature means nothing to me.

"But as a saint of our times has said, every day we are called to do small things with great love."

"He's over here now," said the saint sharply, pointing to a different part of the wheel.

So the saint said, use my name, and you will be open the pitcher.

To those around him the saint said, "This is the blood of the poor squeezed from them by usury."