We lay aside all deliberate knowledge as the Angelus rings, and give ourselves up to faith." * * * * * And now the procession had started, and already, it seemed to him, he had begun to understand.

It was as he himself emerged, a few paces in front of the Blessed Sacrament Itself, walking with the prelates, that that understanding reached its climax.

He paused at the head of the steps, to wait for the canopy to come through, and his heart rose within him so mightily that it was all he could do not to cry out.
Beneath him, seen now from the opposite end from which he had looked this morning, lay the Place, under a wholly different appearance.

The centre of the great oval was cleared, with the exception of a huge pulpit, surmounted by a circular sounding-board, that stood in the middle.

But round this empty space rose, in tier after tier, masses of humanity beyond all reckoning, up and up, as on the sides of an enormous amphitheatre, as far as the highest roofs of the highest buildings that looked on to the space.