Chapter 10
FOR NOAH, THE period before Christmas was one of constant surprises. He’d never felt as totally comfortable with and connected to any group as he did with the choir, and they all seemed genuinely happy to have him among them. Tom had taken him downtown to St. John’s Cathedral for their annual Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, explaining that it was a tradition that had begun at King’s College, Cambridge, right after the First World War, and the cathedral had been following that tradition for some twenty years.
The service had begun with the choir precessing into the cathedral singing the carol “Once in Royal David’s City.” Tom had explained that the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols always began with that tune, as they had at King’s College, Cambridge, for all those years
