"Time to go. I move quickly now between the lecterns toward the...

"Time to go. I move quickly now between the lecterns toward the door. As the guards come in the door, I let the hood drop low, I seize on a book on a shelf near at hand, and hold it near to my face, as if I cannot be stopped from my studies, even in the midst of perambulation. Narrow is my escape. The door of the Scriptorium opens and I sweep through it, imperious in my black Brother’s robe, manuscript held tight."
— from the novel SINFUL FOLK
PHOTO: St.Martha’s Church ~ Surrey, England