I am sure Giovanni once thought of converting me.

He found it so easy that he never speaks of it to me now.

I should not think the same of Maironi.

I believe that to him Christianity means, above all things, actions and life according to the spirit of Christ, of the risen Christ who lives for ever among us, of whom we have, as he puts it, the experience.

It seems to me that the object of his religious mission is, not the placing of the creed of one Christian Church before another, although there is no doubt the holiness of the life he leads is strictly Catholic.