"Yes, my lord."
"And during that time I dare say you have regularly performed the services of the Church?"
"Yes, my lord."
"Did you have week-day services as well?"
"Every Tuesday, my lord."
"And did you preach your own sermons?"
"With an occasional homily of the Church."
"Your own sermon or discourse, with an occasional homily? And was this poor man a regular attendant at all your services during the whole time you have been Vicar?"
"Until he killed his wife, my lord."
"That follows—I mean up to the time of this Sabbath-breaking you spoke of he regularly attended your ministrations, and then killed his wife?"