Chaplain Rowan took his glasses off and began cleaning them.
"And there's absolutely nothing for you to worry about. Even if we do disprove Him there'll always be doubters. You count on a certain percentage of people who won't believe our evidence. You'll get all the skeptics showing up on Sunday morning as usual."
Shaheen spoke with compensating soberness. "What I thought we'd do," he said, "is hold daily discussions on strategy. That way you can question any assumptions we make, check our logic, object as you see fit."
"What we're trying to be about this thing is fair," Blackburn said.
"Of course," Rowan replied.
"Now the first point I wish to raise," Shaheen said, "is in regard to the gargoyles. They're very important, the gargoyles."
Chaplain Rowan sat down on the window sill.
"If the gargoyles are a product of the past-change," Blackburn put in, anticipating the problem, "how are we going to know it? How are we going to perceive the change? That the question?"
"Aren't you going to ask what gargoyles have to do with this?" Pendelton said to Chaplain Rowan.
"I don't believe I will," Rowan replied, lighting up his pipe.