"You do not believe, then, in present-day scientific methods?"
"I believe in any constructive method, but"--he betrayed a shadow of
impatience--"why limit our beliefs to what can be proved with a
surgeon's knife?"
Meade thought he remembered that Roman Catholic priests were on special
occasions allowed to travel without the outer garb of their calling; but
would a priest talk so freely to a stranger? And yet--"You must have had
a religious training at some time in your life?"