But already he begins to turn with loathing from the cold, lifeless Puritan code.
Anon he will find that the Established Church has naught to give him save the husk, from which the precious grain has been carefully extracted." "Father Urban thinks well of him," Walter once remarked, as they discussed the youth after his departure one evening.

"He has met him, I know not where, and believes that there may be work for him to do yet.

We want those with us who have the single mind and honest heart, the devotion that counts not the cost.

All that is written on the lad's face.

If he breaks not away from us, he may become a tool in a practised hand to do a mighty work." Cuthbert, however, went on his way all unconscious of the notice he was arousing in certain quarters.