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"No, surely not."

"But we've yet to see what the hot-heads will do. I'm waiting here—and in weekly communication with Oxford," he added sonorously. "Brother, I tell you there may still be great things happening. If we can but drop these cursed politics and turn our eyes from other kings and countries to other Churches. There's a suggestion that we, the true clergy of the Church of England under our Bishops, may unite with the ancient Church of Greece and Thyratira, called by some the Orthodox Churches of the East."

"And that would be a fine thing for you?"

"I think it would. There are some who say that the East is as corrupt as the West, Thyratira as Rome . . . but I think not. If we could but converse with them we should doubtless find an uncorrupted primitive theology under later growths of superstition. Wagstaffe tells me there are some learned men in Cyprus and in Athens. He speaks of a work called 'Eironikon' . . . but I haven't much Greek."

"It's a lack you can supply now you've leisure here for study."