'The+Bishop'


 * The Bishop

"A month later a new suffragan bishop was appointed. No one remembered Bishop Peter any more and soon they forgot all about him. Only the old lady (the late bishop's mother) who was now living with her brother-in-law, a deacon in an obscure provincial town, talked about her son to the women she met when she went out in the evening to fetch her cow from pasture; then she would tell them about her children, her grandchildren, about her son who had been a bishop. And she spoke hesitantly, afraid they would not believe her. Nor did they all believe her, as it happened." **