“Were you snubbed?” asked his son tranquilly.

“But we have spoilt the pleasure of I don't know how many people. They won't come back.”

“�full of innate sympathy�quickness to perceive good in others�vision of the brotherhood of man�” Scraps of the lecture on St. Francis came floating round the partition wall.

“Don't let us spoil yours,” he continued to Lucy. “Have you looked at those saints?”

“Yes,” said Lucy. “They are lovely. Do you know which is the tombstone that is praised in Ruskin?”

He did not know, and suggested that they should try to guess it. George, rather to her relief, refused to move, and