Halsey was putting on his boots to go out to his day's round of business and pastoral work.

He knew just as well as if she had explained it to him that a great deal lay behind what she said.

He fell to wondering at once what she could want.

Was it to send a message to the old home by the man whose very name must recall all its memories?
"I want to go and hear him preach," Susannah went on.
Halsey was disturbed.

"Thou canst not really have such a desire," he said severely.
"Why not?
A great deal that he preaches is just the same as what you preach, Angel." He saw that she was in a turbulent mood, and that grieved him; but as for her request, he could not believe it to be serious.
"Thou art speaking idle words," he said with a sigh, and he rose to go out.
"You have not answered me.