They are High Church.

They discuss with astonishing vigour and at dreadful length what seems to me the most immaterial points in the Church service, and just at present an impulse is given to their zeal by the fact of their favourite clergyman being threatened with a prosecution for ritualistic practices.

Of course I have to feign a becoming interest in all this, and to take part in all their religious forms and ceremonies.

And indeed it is all so new to me that I have scarcely yet got over the first feelings of wonder and curiosity.
"Have I not, then, you will ask, the courage of my opinions?
But indeed my religious opinions are so strangely different from those which prevail here, that I fear it would be impossible to make my thoughts clear to these good people.

They would scarcely esteem me a Christian; and yet I cannot but think that it is they who are widely astray from Christian belief and practice.