But he has been counselled evilly." Chris remembered as in a dream that the bishop had been the King's tutor years before.
"He is a good theologian too," went on the bishop, "and that is his misfortune now, though I never thought to say such a thing.

Perhaps he will become a better one still, if God has mercy on him, and he will come back to his first faith.

But we must be good Catholics ourselves, and be ready to die for our Religion, before we can teach him." Again, after another silence, he went on.
"You are to be a priest, I hear, my son, and to take Christ's yoke more closely upon you.

It is no easy one in these days, though love will make it so, as Himself said.

I suppose it will be soon now ?" "We are to get a dispensation, my lord, for the interstices," said the Prior.
Chris had heard that this would be done, before he left Lewes, and he was astonished now, not at the news, but at the strange softness of the Prior's voice.
"That is very well," went on the bishop.