"Well, that's the state of England. Practically everybody is a Catholic—from the King downwards. The last remains of Church property was only actually given back to us last year. That's why the monks haven't come back to Westminster yet."
"What about the rest of the world?"
"Well, first Rome. Austria drove out the House of Savoy nearly twenty-five years ago; and the Holy Father——"
"What's his name?"
"Gregory the Nineteenth. He's a Frenchman. Well, the Holy Father is Temporal Ruler of the whole of Italy; but the Emperor of Austria administers it. Then France is, of course, a very small country."
"Why small?"
"Well, you know the European War of 1914 . . .?" Monsignor interrupted by a large sigh.
"Good heavens!" he said. "How I shall have to read. I'm sorry.
Go on, please."
"Well, France is a very small country, but intensely Catholic.
The Church is re-established there,——"
"Is it a monarchy too?"