The sub-lecturers and minor professors in the divinity school were coldly contemptuous in their manner, and it seemed to him that even Dr.
Henry was less friendly.

He became desperately anxious to get out of a position which he found more intolerable than the original isolation.

He applied himself with extreme diligence to his studies, even affecting an interest, unnatural for the most pious, in the expositions given by learned doctors of the Thirty-nine Articles.

At lectures on Church history he made notes about the vagaries of heretics so assiduously that the professor began to hope that there existed one student at least who took an interest in the Christological controversies of the sixth century.

He never ventured back again to the Wednesday prayer-meeting, but he performed many attendances beyond the required minimum at the college chapel.