On Paul's first morning at Llanabba, he is awakened by Peter Beste-Chetwynde, who has clearly taken some liking to the new schoolmaster. Peter warns Paul that, if he is to reach the masters' single bathroom before Mr. Prendergast, he must get up immediately. Paul does so, forcing the older man to rearrange a schedule he has kept for ten years. When Paul suggests a compromise, Prendergast only reacts with melancholy resignation. Prendergast's confides to Paul that his life has been a series of major and minor disappointments ever since he left the Church.
Prendergast had been forced to resign his comfortable post as a parish minister, as well as having to leave his home and friends, because of what he calls his 'Doubts'. These Doubts, he explains, are not the usual, pettier.....
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