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What do you think?"
"It sounds a trifle revolutionary," commented the bishop, with a smile.
"But it appeals to me. Education is a matter than lies very near my
heart. In fact, I had some thoughts of retiring from the Church and
devoting myself to it. I feel, I don't know why, as if I could do more
in that direction."
Keith merely observed:
"That is interesting. Perhaps you have reached the end of the Church."
He liked this young Colonial bishop, and his straightforward, earnest
face. Being of a complicated nature himself, he was always drawn
towards men of single aims and purposes.
The other would have been pleased to know why Keith found it
"interesting" and what he meant by that other phrase, bur forbore to
inquire. He was rather a silent man, though not deficient in mother
wit. He lit a cigarette, and waited.
"Let us discourse of education!" said his host with that elaborate
manner which the bishop afterwards discovered to be peculiar to him. "I
think we need not differentiate between the sexes.


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