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Show in the late fifties? Her college years must have disillusioned her, because when the Professor and his wife returned from the Middle East she was no more religious than her older sister? Yet "religious;" the Professor thought? was probably not the correct word. His own children struck him as every bit as morally stable as their more "religious" cousins, and his lukewarm in-laws no less virtuous than their children. He himself was even less inclined these days to be sympathetic to the Church than he had been forty years earlier, when he had left the mission field? Mormon authority had, it seemed to him? become more authoritarian and less tolerant year by year. He had? personally, never disavowed the Church, despite his lack of communion in it.* He could, he believed, never dissociate himself from it, because six generations of his ancestors had been participants in its history, some of them in major roles. He had even written a book detailing that histery. He had been amused once when a friend of his, an important American poet? had written him announcing that he had just become a convert to Roman Catholicism. "Now?" the letter had said? "when I speak of 'the church,' I will know what I'm talking about? just as you do." The Professor had replied that his friend had his position all wrong? "When I speak of the Church?" he had replied, "I don't mean its dogma, I mean its historical past, which is |