"And after you grew up, Nicholas?"
"I went through the usual phases, I suppose. I remember telling my tutor, when I left school, that I was an atheist."
Nicholas stopped and looked humorously at his wife, and they both laughed.
"Good! I was beginning to think I'd married a little saint. Atheism is a common complaint amongst the very young, I imagine."
"What are you now, Nicholas?"
"I suppose an agnostic," said Nicholas reflectively. "I can hardly imagine any thoughtful person, over a certain age, being anything else. Though I suppose that's nonsense, when one thinks of the number of deeply religious people that exist in all denominations."
"I suppose you'd call Father a religious man?"
"He ought to have been a Trappist monk," declared Nicholas.
"But that's Roman Catholic! Father is very much prejudiced against Roman Catholics."
"I know he is."