“Got your quotation?” asked Thropper, as he dressed.
“Quotation?”
“Yes, Bible verse for the tables. You’ll probably be asked to give one. You see, it’s a sort of custom for Bible verses to go the rounds of the tables, in the morning. You don’t have to have one, but it fits in nicely, if you have one. Especially if you’re a waiter.”
“Oh, of course I’ll take one,” I said.
“Only just remember and not do what one waiter did, Priddy: take that verse and quote it: ‘Let your women keep silence in the churches.’ It would get you in wrong—with the young ladies.”
“Why?”
“Well, so many of them are going to be evangelists and ministers and missionaries: ever so many of them. You see how they would be liable to take it.”
“We had better keep on the good side of—the ladies,” I laughed.
Thropper winked.
“Betcher life,” he replied.