Xavier had been a servant in the house.

Mrs.King, who was religious and zealous, had found in him a convert.

He had become a Protestant to please her.

(At this point the narrator shrugged his shoulders again.) Then Xavier had asked higher wages; upon that there was a quarrel, and he had left.
The speaker's scanty English was of the simplest.

He said, 'Xavier is a very bad man, much worse than our people usually are.