Chapter XONE day Sirius demanded very urgently that Thomas should arrange for him to meet a few of the outstanding religious people of Cambridge. “But I don’t know any,” said Thomas. “They’re not my line. And anyhow I wouldn’t trust them not to blab.” Sirius was not to be put off; and finally it was agreed that Elizabeth should help him to satisfy his curiosity about religion, and at the same time show him London. She had a cousin who was a parson in the East End. He could be taken into their confidence, and the two of them could perhaps visit him.
The Rev. Geoffrey Adams, now well advanced in middle age, was one of those clerics who had cared more for his parishioners than for self–advancement. Long ago he had undertaken a slum parish, and he had stayed there ever since. His life had bee
