behaving badly

Evelyn Waugh is the author of such literary classics as A Handful of Dust and Brideshead Revisited. He possessed a scathing wit, and numerous other personal flaws we won’t enumerate here.

After flirting with agnosticism, Waugh converted to Catholicism. Yet he still struggled. One day a woman asked him, “Mr. Waugh, how can you behave as you do and still…