"Did you come to the rectory on the fifth of this month, and tell me it was my first duty to resign the living?"
"I don't remember the date."
"Was it the Saturday before Bank Holiday?"
"I daresay. Yes, it must have been. I didn't expect to find you there. I went to see the wreck and ruin of your home and church, not you."
"But you did come, and you did see me, and you did tell me it was my first duty to resign my living?"
"Certainly I did."
"Do you remember your words?"
"Some of them."
Carlton looked at his pocket-book—at a note made overnight.
"Do you remember making use of the following expressions: 'Law or no law, I'll have you out of this! I'll hound you out of it! I'll have you torn in pieces if you stay'?"