"That's just like you men. You never know when you're well off. Now with your palace and Jonah you ought to be content."
The Bishop sighed.
"Dear lady," he said, "I admit my faults. The palace I indeed possess temporarily, but Jonah—ah, what would Jonah be without you! If I have left my work once in the past month to ask your advice, I have left it a hundred times."
"You have," admitted Mrs. Mackintosh with decision.
"Then it is to you that Jonah owes his debt of gratitude, not to me. You have lightened my labour in more senses of the word than one."
"Well, I've had a very pleasant visit. Blanford's a little paradise."
The Bishop sighed again, and remarked:
"Paradise I have always regarded as being peaceful."
"Yes," acquiesced his companion reflectively, "with all that Jonah went through, I don't remember as he had an unmarried sister."
There was silence for a moment, and then his Lordship abruptly changed the subject.