Carlton raised his eyes from his notes, but not to the bench; they were only for the witness now.
"Do you remember when and where we met again?"
"You had the insolence to call at my house."
"Was it on a Monday morning, the first after the Bank Holiday?"
"I suppose it was."
"I do not ask you to recall your exact words on that occasion. I simply ask you to inform the bench whether I did, or did not, offer to resign the living then and there—on a certain condition."
"Yes; you did," said Sir Wilton, doggedly. He was very red in the face.
Carlton could not resist a moment's enjoyment of his discomfiture: it heightened the pleasure of letting him off.
"And did you decline?" he said at length.
"Stop a moment," said the chairman. "What was this condition, Sir Wilton?"