“So you don’t repent?”
“I think not. As far as I can judge he is a good boy still. I make him my escort to church, so that I am sure of him there. Renville would have taken him for a boy about his studio, and I think he will go there eventually; but Camilla thinks he may be an attraction at the bazaar, and is making him draw for it.”
“I was in hopes that the bazaar would have blown over, but the Bishop has been demanding of Fuller and his churchwardens how soon they mean to put the building in hand, and this seems to be their only notion of raising money.”
“I am very glad of this opportunity of asking what you think I had better do about it. Your wife takes no part in it?”
“Certainly not; but I doubt whether that need be a precedent for you. I am answerable for her, and you could hardly keep out of it without making a divided household.”
“I see the difference, and perhaps I have made myself quite unpleasant enough already.”
“As the opposition?”
“And Camilla has been very kind in giving me much more freedom than I expected, and pacifying papa. She let me go every Friday evening to help Lady Susan Strangeways at her mothers’ meeting.”
“Lady Susan Strangeways! I have heard of her.”
“She has been my comforter and help all this time. She is all kindness and heartiness,—elbow-deep in everything good. She got up at five o’clock to finish the decorations at St. Maurice’s, and to-day she is taking five hundred school-children to Windsor forest.”