Chapter 33

His heart went out to Christopher as it had gone out to Lance. He was attracted by the essential cleanness of the lad, his wise simplicity, that sudden smile, his air of oldness in youth. They went out and walked together. Kit found the Venerable very easy to talk to. He talked to him about his father. The impersonal is founded upon the personal, and the struggles and the braveries of Sorrell’s father, as seen by the son, were understood by old Pybus as few men would have understood them. Here was a live reaction. …