I have placed a pick and a shovel on the spot." He spoke to David: "Would you mind helping Mukoki to dig?
I would like to be alone for a little while.

You understand.

There are things...." "I understand, Father." For the first time David felt something of the awe of this thing that was death.

He had forgotten, almost, that Father Roland was a servant of God, so vitally human had he found him, so unlike all other men of his calling he had ever known.

But it was impressed upon him now, as he followed Mukoki.