"My daughter, this makes three times in two months that you've confessed months that you've confessed adultery. If you were sorry, if the previous penances had done some good, you wouldn't be confessing it again.""True. I tell myself not to sin, but my heart aches for him so I do. I regret the sin, but not the acts that contain it." Father Hiver sighed. "It wouldn't quite so bad if this man weren't married, didn't have children. You really are blessed...