In the new sphere of action which we design for you, you will not only be at liberty to acknowledge that you are a Catholic, it will be absolutely necessary that you should do so.

But you will continue to wear the ordinary dress of an English gentleman, and to preserve the strictest secrecy on the subject of your admission to the priesthood, until you are further advised by myself.

Now, dear Arthur, read that paper.

It is the necessary preface to all that I have yet to say to you." The "paper" contained a few pages of manuscript relating the early history of Vange Abbey, in the days of the monks, and the circumstances under which the property was confiscated to lay uses in the time of Henry the Eighth.

Penrose handed back the little narrative, vehemently expressing his sympathy with the monks, and his detestation of the King.
"Compose yourself, Arthur," said Father Benwell, smiling pleasantly.
"We don't mean to allow Henry the Eighth to have it all his own way forever." Penrose looked at his superior in blank bewilderment.