He rang a gilt bell that stood beside the gilt inkstand, and a grey-haired priest, still unshaven and shabbily dressed, came at the call.

"And wherefore, my child, do they bring thee hither?" asked an old, grey-haired priest.

"They are very strange, and-andstartling," she said stiffly, moving as far away from the grey-hairedpriest as possible.

"I'm not sure," Father Casey, their kindly, grey-haired priest, had remarked to Eamonn, "that my predecessor would have done it.