Morse hears footfall behind him and he turns, noticing the kind eyes and welcoming face of the priest. He shouldn’t be as surprised as he finds himself— this is a chapel, it’s common practice that a clergyman comes with it— but it is half three in the morning.
“I’m sorry to have troubled you,” he begins. “I don’t need… that is, I don’t really go in for this sort of thing.” Endeavour at least has the good graces to be genuinely apologetic as he looks to @4o77th , but he finds his attention drawn back to the chancel almost immediately after, running his hands up and down the lengths of his thighs as if everything wrong could be remedied as easily as sweaty palms.
“…Not for want of trying, that is,” he finds himself continuing. “My mother took me quite often to her meeting house. Thought it would help, I suppose. ‘Still your mind,’ she’d say… never got the knack.” He’s quiet for a moment.
“The acoustics seem good.”