"Sanctity, I must. I am called."
"You are sure of that?"
"It is the only thing in all the world of which I am sure."
"Do you always live on bread and water?"
"Yes."
"Why?"
"I think the food beastly. I have been into the kitchen; and I have seen—things. I am afraid to eat anything except boiled eggs. They cannot deposit—sputum inside the shells of boiled eggs. But the servants complained of the extra trouble in boiling eggs especially for me. The bread is not made in the college. In order not to be singular, I eat and drink what I can eat and drink of that which is set before me; and I am deemed more singular than ever."
"Have you said this to the rector?"
"Yes."
"Do you like bread and water?"