"Father Brown was soon established in the family circle which was quite large enough to give the general sense of company or a community. He was introduced to the big wooden images of the Three Kings of painted and gilded wood who bring the gifts to the children at Christmas; for Spain is a country where the affairs of the children bulk large in the life of the home.

He was introduced to the dog and the cat and the live-stock on the farm. But he was also as it happened introduced to one neighbour who like himself had brought into that valley the garb and manners of distant lands."