The minister's visit to the prison was not instructive. 牧師這次探監沒有意義。
This, he thought, was planted in his mind in early childhood by meeting a prison visitor who consorted with the wicked inmates of Bedford jail. 他在孩童時代曾碰到過一位與關押在貝福德監獄十惡不赦的囚犯交往的探監工作者,他認為,這種關切在那時就已經紮根於心中。