Since the Stranger had paid no heed to their advent, the Archbishop addressed himself to Him courteously:
'Pardon me if this seems an intrusion, or if I have come at an inconvenient moment, but I have received such extraordinary accounts of your proceedings that, as head of the English Church, I felt bound to take them, to some extent, under my official cognisance.'
The Stranger, looking at him, inquired:
'In your churches whom do you worship?'
'My dear sir! What an extraordinary question!'
'What idol have you fashioned which you call after My Name?'
'Idol! Really, really!'
'Why do you cry continually: "Come quickly!" when you would not I should come?'
'What very peculiar questions, betraying a complete ignorance of the merest rudiments of common knowledge! Is it possible that you are unaware that I am the head of the Christian hierarchy?'
Said the Cardinal: