After reading the first words of the Gospel: "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God," Pierre went round the table and saw a large open box filled with something.

It was a coffin with bones inside.

He was not at all surprised by what he saw.

Hoping to enter on an entirely new life quite unlike the old one, he expected everything to be unusual, even more unusual than what he was seeing.

A skull, a coffin, the Gospel--it seemed to him that he had expected all this and even more.