The Choir (2011)
“He found the dean in a very different mood from the one he had been in at their last interview, very buoyant and not in the least pliable.
“Mr. Ashworth, we are not, I am happy to tell you, in the position that men of finance call demandeur. The Friends of the Cathedral can raise two-thirds of the sum, and we can obtain grants for the remainder.”
“We can wait,” Frank Ashworth said. “There’s no hurry. No doubt you’ll need the money someday.”
“I must be honest with you,” the dean said in tones of... the smoothest confidentiality. “You must dismiss all hopes of the headmaster’s house. The cathedral and its close will be attracting an immensely increased number of visitors and the environment must of course be protected for them.”
“Does it not trouble you,” Frank said slowly, “to be spending so much money on new lighting when not only is the old lighting perfectly adequate to most people’s minds, but when the city needs money so badly to help its people?”
“The cathedral belongs to the city and its people.MoreLess
“Mr. Ashworth, we are not, I am happy to tell you, in the position that men of finance call demandeur. The Friends of the Cathedral can raise two-thirds of the sum, and we can obtain grants for the remainder.”
“We can wait,” Frank Ashworth said. “There’s no hurry. No doubt you’ll need the money someday.”
“I must be honest with you,” the dean said in tones of... the smoothest confidentiality. “You must dismiss all hopes of the headmaster’s house. The cathedral and its close will be attracting an immensely increased number of visitors and the environment must of course be protected for them.”
“Does it not trouble you,” Frank said slowly, “to be spending so much money on new lighting when not only is the old lighting perfectly adequate to most people’s minds, but when the city needs money so badly to help its people?”
“The cathedral belongs to the city and its people.MoreLess
Read book The Choir for free
Write Review:
Guest
Read Also
8 / 10
9 / 10
User Reviews: