There was no time to say more, and the brief talk ended at that point.

The minister was much gratified, and had dropped in for a moment now, to invite the twins to attend his Bible class at eight that evening.

Angelo accepted, and was expecting Luigi to decline, but he did not, because he knew that the Bible class and the Freethinkers met in the same room, and he wanted to treat his brother to the embarrassment of being caught in free-thinking company..