The Purple Robe

Excerpt from The Purple Robe
The Story of the Garden of Eden is said to explain one of the greatest mysteries of life; it does more than that, it reveals one of the most striking traits in human nature. No sooner did Eve know that certain fruit was forbidden than she longed for it. All of us long for forbidden fruit, no matter what our nationality or education may be. "Stolen grapes are sweet," says the old adage, and many of the old adages are true.
This may explain why Alizon Neville, of Neville Priory, desired to enter a Nonconformist Church. Had she been free to do as she liked about the matter, the possibilities are that she would not have had the faintest inclination in this direction; but being a Roman Catholic, as her forefathers had been for many generations, she had been led to regard worship within unconsecrated walls as a species of blasphemy. Hence the desire to take part in a Protestant service.
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