"I have broken finally with Horlock.

I have told him that I am coming to you." Dartrey leaned over and held out both his hands.

The spiritual side of his face seemed at that moment altogether in the ascendant.

He welcomed Tallente as the head of a great religious order might have welcomed a novice.

He was full of dignity and kindliness as well as joy.
"You will help us to set the world to rights," he said.