He was agreeably surprised when he entered the professor's room.

Dr.Henry offered him a chair.
'I hear,' he said--his tone was severe, but a barely perceptible gleam of humorous appreciation flashed across his eyes as he spoke--'that you have been exceedingly insolent to Dr.Spenser.' 'I don't know, sir, whether you heard the whole story, but if you did you will surely recognise that Dr.Spenser was gratuitously insulting to me.' 'Quite so,' said Dr.Henry.

'I recognise that, but the question is, What am I to do with you now?
What would you do if you were in my place?
I should like to know your views of the best way out of the situation.' Hyacinth was silent.
'You see,' Dr.Henry went on, 'we can't have our divinity lecturers called fools and cads before their classes.

I should be afraid myself to deliver a lecture in your presence if I thought I was liable to that kind of interruption.' 'I think, sir,' said Hyacinth, 'that the best thing will be for me to leave the divinity school.' 'I think so, too.

But leaving our divinity school need not mean that you give up the idea of taking Holy Orders.