"Are you going like this?
Can you not shake hands ?" The other wheeled again, with heavy anger in his face.
"Why, you said you could not be friends with me!" Percy's mouth opened.

Then he understood, and smiled.

"Oh! that is all you mean by friendship, is it ?--I beg your pardon.

Oh! we can be polite to one another, if you like." He still stood holding out his hand.

Father Francis looked at it a moment, his lips shook: then once more he turned, and went out without a word.
II Percy stood motionless until he heard the automatic bell outside tell him that Father Francis was really gone, then he went out himself and turned towards the long passage leading to the Cathedral.