The Inquisitor by Hugh Walpole — Read

'Make me see it, Elizabeth! Make me see it!'

'Well, the stands are all up now. They look very white and naked-- new wood and bare, as though they'd be bare like that for ever. And what's so strange is to see them staring at the Cathedral and the Cathedral staring back at them. In sunlight the Cathedral stone looks like silver and as though it had been there a thousand years. The stands look so VERY impertinent!'