It would not be fair to record the adventures of Father Brown, without admitting that he was once involved in a grave scandal.
There still are persons, perhaps even of his own community, who would say that there was a sort of blot upon his name.
It happened in a picturesque Mexican road-house of rather loose repute, as appeared later; and to some it seemed that for once the priest had allowed a romantic streak in him, and his sympathy for human weakness, to lead him into loose and unorthodox .
Fractal Press The scandal of father brown, paperback/g. k. chesterton
