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Challis was ushered into Crashaw's study on his arrival, and found the rector in company with another man -- introduced as Mr. Forman -- a jolly-looking, high-complexioned man of sixty or so, with a great quantity of white hair on his head and face; he was wearing an old-fashioned morning-coat and grey trousers that were noticeably too short for him.
Crashaw lost no time in introducing the subject of "really peculiar urgency," but he rambled in his introduction.