'All right?'
'It's the most astounding thing that ever came under my observation,' exclaimed Buckland, walking away and then returning.
'That Mr. Peak should be studying for the Church?'
'Yes.'
'But do reflect more modestly!' urged Sidwell, with something that was not quite archness, though as near it as her habits of tone and feature would allow. 'Why should you refuse to admit an error in your own way of looking at things? Wouldn't it be better to take this as a proof that intellect isn't necessarily at war with Christianity?'
'I never stated it so broadly as that,' returned her brother, with impatience. 'But I should certainly have maintained that Peak's intellect was necessarily in that position.'
'And you see how wrong you would have been,' remarked the girl, softly.
'Well—I don't know.'
'You don't know?'
'I mean that I can't acknowledge what I can't understand.'