How the practical details will be arranged, I can't say; I have no family influence, and I must hope to make friends who will open a way for me.

I have always lived apart from society; but that isn't natural to me, and it becomes more distasteful the older I grow.

The probability is that I shall settle somewhere in the country, where I can live decently on a small income.

After all, it's better I should have let you know this at once.

I only realised a few minutes ago that to be silent about my projects was in a way to be guilty of false pretences.' The adroitness of this last remark, which directed itself, with such show of candour, against a suspicion precisely the opposite of that likely to be entertained by the listener, succeeded in disarming Warricombe; he looked up with a smile of reassurance, and spoke encouragingly.
'About the practical details I don't think you need have any anxiety.
It isn't every day that the Church of England gets such a recruit.