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These , however , he easily supplied from his own experience , supposing hers to have been more or less like it . He said he wished he had known of this before , that he had spoken sooner , wincing perceptibly as Audrey pointed out the inexpediency of discussing eternal things on so temporal an occasion as her dinner-party . He did not mean that . His time now was short ; he had a stupid parish meeting at five o'clock . He went rapidly over the ground , past immemorial stumbling-stones of thought , refuting current theories , suggesting lines of reading ; in his excitement he even recommended some slight study of Patristics . There was nothing like getting to the sources -- Polycarp and Irenæus were important ; or he could lend her Lightfoot . But he did not want to overwhelm her with dogmas -- mere matter for the intellect -- he would prefer her to accept some truths provisionally and see how they worked out .