“My mother is, sir, but my father is dead.”
“What was your father?”
“He was an Irishman, sir! and boots to this inn.”
“Is your mother Irish?”
“No, sir, she is of this place; my father married her shortly after he came here.”
“Of what religion are you?”
“Church, sir, Church.”
“Was your father of the Church?”
“Not always, sir; he was once what is called a Catholic. He turned to the Church after he came here.”
“A’n’t there a great many Methodists in Bala?”