He relaxed and con-
centrated on the slow churning within it, and in a few
minutes he found escape into a brief mystic transport,
in which state he was invulnerable to the scene about
him, and to his racial guilt! Since he considered it outrageous
to read and eat at the same time—diluting one of his
passions with the other—de Lhandes had struck on the
idea of combining library and dining room, the long
refectory table serving both functions?