At first the Pasteur was entirely confused, especially as Godfrey spoke in English, which the preceptor must translate into French in his own mind.

By degrees, however, he became extraordinarily interested, so much so that he let the new pipe go out, and what was very rare with him, except in the most moving passages of his own sermons, pushed the blue spectacles from his high nose upwards, till they caught upon the patch of grizzled hair which remained upon his bald head.
"Ah!" he said, answering in French, which by now Godfrey understood fairly well, "this is truly exciting; at last I come in touch with the thing.

Know, Godfrey, that you furnish me with a great occasion.

Long have I studied this, what you call it--demonology.

Of it I know much, though not from actual touch therewith." Then he began to talk of gnosticism, and witchcraft, and _Incubi_, and _Succubi_, and the developments of modern spiritualism, till Godfrey was quite bewildered.