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Despite the continued strain in their relations, Father Chaminade and Father Caillet kept up appearances.  But the wide gap between them was destined never to be bridged.  Father Chaminade refused to forego his rights and neglect his duties as Founder.  For him preservation of the true spirit of the Society was the last great effort God asked.  He could not rest, then, until he saw the Society as God wanted it to be.  Year after year from 1845 one witnessed the failure of both parties to reach an agreement.  The two positions remained what they had been—diametrically opposed.  Father Caillet could not understand how he could recognize any authority but his own.  Was not the recognition of a founder’s right and duty to counsel, guide, and recommend tantamount to concede him the exercise of authority?  He wondered how the Founder could pretend to help him correct abuses, if abuses there were.  But as for Father Chaminade, as the hour of death drew nearer, he dreaded more and more the definitive distortion of his divinely inspired ideal. (p. 78)

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