“Because, although I have no sympathy with the modern movements at Oxford, and consider that she has fallen away from her original high mission, yet she is, and always will be, a seat of learning; and the Humanities will never wholly be banished from her halls.”
“Again, I fail to follow you sir.”
“I mean that such an alternative destination for the property will enable me to decline it with a clear conscience.”
“Really, sir, your replies are wholly unintelligible.”
Bertram turns helplessly to Fanshawe. “Explain to this gentleman my views regarding property.”
“I am aware of some of them, sir,” replies the solicitor, sententiously.
“You read the Torch, Mr. Folliott, don’t you?” says the proprietor of the Torch.
“When my professional duties compel me, sir.”
“But the Torch is milk for lambs, Mr. Folliott, beside the Age to Come.”
The solicitor bows with an expression which indicates that he would prefer to remain unacquainted with the Age to Come.