Throughout the months of April and May, 1937, there was a widespread feeling in the university town of Camford that some sort of Presence was subjecting human life, and its treatment by Camford in particular, to a sympathetic but quite unsparing scrutiny. The Master of Holy Innocents College; Trumber, a lecturer in English Literature; Scott-Harrowby, Hooker Professor of Latent History; and Mr. Henry Preeder, temporary assistant reader for the University Press, were all asked agitating leading questions about their respective positions and work. The Voice occurred for the last time in the midst of the Congregation Day ceremonies. 'There is no salvation,' it said, 'for races that will not save themselves. Half the stars in the sky are burning rubbish of worlds that might have been.' With this disturbing utterance - as disturbing to the reader as it was to that university Congregation - the Camford Visitation ended.
