risk.'
The two men were silent for a while. Then Fiennes spoke again.
'So the dog really was important to the story?'
'Of course Nox was important to the story,' Father Brown agreed. 'The
dog couldn't tell you about the stick because he couldn't talk. You invented
the dog's story, instead of really thinking about the dog as an animal. You
made Nox into a superstition①. That's something that people do all the time,
you know. The modern world doesn't believe in God and so it invents magic
to take His place. That's why I was angry with you before.'
① superstition：迷信。
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