It is the parsonage, and I am simply living in it as the minister." "Yes, I understand.

You, a minister, are living in this princely house while other people have not where to lay their heads." Again Philip felt the same temptation to anger steal into him, and again he checked himself at the thought: "The man is certainly insane.

The whole thing is simply absurd.

I will get rid of him.

And yet----" He could not shake off a strange and powerful impression which the stranger's words had made upon him.