““He was talking very excitedly to me," said the Vicar, "about some apparatus for warming a church in Worthing and about the Apostolic Claims of the Church of Abyssinia. I confess I could not follow him clearly. He seems deeply interested in Church matters. Are you quite sure he is right in the head? I have noticed again and again since I have been in the Church that lay interest in ecclesiastical matters is often a prelude to insanity.””
![“Vicar: You ought to try [religion], one of these days," he said. "I believe you'd like it." I said: "but I have tried it, haven't I? I've been to church. It never seems to take.” quote by Dodie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8f0/dodie-smith-1724_cassandra-mortmain_vicar-you-ought-to-try-religion-one-of-t_957856.jpg)
