Two days before, on Saturday, Neville told a dear friend he was glad a new rector had been appointed to the church in Beverly Hills - he had heard the man speak twice at Westlake when his daughter was there and thought him able and loving - but she objected that he could not draw the people, meaning raise money; Neville contrasts him with the retiring rector, who for twenty-odd years read weekly lectures posted to him by a lecture bureau in Philadelphia 3,000 miles away.