Chapter 69

For he was not the sort of cur that slinks off round a corner. Also, there is a quality in creative work which—when it is being well done—makes a man better than himself. He is drinking the wine of the gods. Also, self-expression is most subtly associated with the particular atmospheres of people and of places. The renewal of Lance’s mysticism was associated with the Venerable, and the Venerable’s little room, and with that other incident of Mary Merris and her tears. Always, a little memory picture was rising befo…