Glittering Images
“We won’t call this a fantasy because you evidently find that word hurtful, so we’ll just say that you were experiencing certain difficulties in your private life and when you met me I seemed in some mysterious way to provide you with a solution. Obviously you liked the idea – which that old fool Lang had put into your head – that I was an eminent churchman who led a double life. No, that’s an understatement. You didn’t just like the idea – you were enrapt by it.
‘So you arrive in Starbridge and... soon you’ve far exceeded your brief from Lang – after all, it must have quickly become very clear to you that I’m not the sort of man who compromises himself by dabbling in foolish love-letters or keeping an uncensored journal. However you’re not interested in Lang’s brief, not any more. What you’re now interested in is the possibility that behind the glittering image of my ecclesiastical success lies a life steeped in the kind of error which would make even Lang’s senile speculations look pale.MoreLess
‘So you arrive in Starbridge and... soon you’ve far exceeded your brief from Lang – after all, it must have quickly become very clear to you that I’m not the sort of man who compromises himself by dabbling in foolish love-letters or keeping an uncensored journal. However you’re not interested in Lang’s brief, not any more. What you’re now interested in is the possibility that behind the glittering image of my ecclesiastical success lies a life steeped in the kind of error which would make even Lang’s senile speculations look pale.MoreLess
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