The young man brought with him a large paperbacked volume which he had taken out of his travelling bag.
"Here's a book I'm reading.

A few days ago I happened to be at Williams & Norgates'.

This caught my eyes, and a glance at a page or two interested me so much that I bought it at once.

It would please you, father." "I've no time for reading nowadays," sighed the vicar.

"What is it ?" He took the volume, a philosophical work by a French writer, bearing recent date.