That is all." "Ah, he is a man of conscience?
I did not know.

But, being your brother, he should be, Don Paolo." The prelate's bright brown eyes twinkled.
Paolo was silent, though he bowed his head in acknowledgment of the indirect praise.
"You do not say anything," observed the Cardinal, looking at his secretary with a smile.
"He is a man of convictions," answered Paolo, at last.
"That is better than nothing, better than being lukewarm.

'Because thou art lukewarm,' you know the rest." "_Incipiam te evomere_," replied the priest mechanically.

"Marzio is not lukewarm." "_Frigidusne ?_" asked the Cardinal.
"Hardly that." "_An calidus ?_" "Not very, Eminence.

That is, not exactly." "But then, in heaven's name, what is he ?" laughed the prelate.