C. I should think a visit from you would be an immense pleasure to him; and I am sure it would be good for the place to be stirred up.
Prof. D. You have not learnt to prize that atmosphere in which things always seem to assume their true proportion, and to prompt the cry of St. Bernard’s brother—‘All earth for me, all heaven for you.’
C. That was surely an outcome of the time when people used to sacrifice certainties to uncertainties, and spoil life for the sake of they knew not what.
Prof. D. For eye hath not seen, nor ear heard.
Stranger. Mr. Dunlop! This is an unexpected pleasure!
C. (alone). Well, wonders will never cease. The great Professor Dunlop talking to me quite preachy and goody; and of all people in the world, the old man at Darkglade turning out to be a great physiologist!
VII. TWO OLD FRIENDS
SCENE.—Darkglade Vicarage study. Mr. Aveland and Professor Dunlop.
Prof. D. Thank you, sir. It has been a great pleasure to talk over these matters with you; I hope a great benefit.
Mr. A. I am sure it is a great benefit to us to have a breath from the outer world. I hope you will never let so long a time go by without our meeting. Remember, as iron sharpeneth iron, so doth a man’s countenance that of his friend.