I am trying the next best thing.

You see, I won't have to keep order, but I don't think I can preach very well.

I am going to visit your school.

Have you many scholars?
Do you know, I think it's splendid?
I wish I could do it." I had intended to be somewhat stiff with him, but his evident admiration of me made me quite forget this laudable intention, and, as he talked on without waiting for an answer, his enthusiasm, his deference to my opinion, his charm of manner, his beautiful face, his luminous eyes, made him perfectly irresistible; and before I was aware I was listening to his plans for working his mission with eager interest.

So eager was my interest, indeed, that before I was aware I found myself asking him to tea with me in my shack.