They neither spoke of mysteries, like his father, nor were eager about disputings, like the men who had been his fellow-students.

They were living a very simple life, of which faith and a wide charity formed a part as natural as eating or sleeping.

When the children's bedtime came it seemed to him a very wonderful thing that they should kneel in turns beside their father's knee and say their prayers aloud, when he, a stranger, was in the room.

It seemed to him less strange, because then he had been two hours longer in the company of the Quinns, that before leaving he, too, should kneel beside his hostess and listen while his new employer repeated the familiar words of some of the old collects he had heard his father read in church..