"But if they say what is wrong?"
"That they can do any time, and that won't hurt me, either."
"But what will the landlord himself think?"
"I have no doubt he feels grateful to me for being so friendly. You can't oblige a man more than by asking a light favor of him."
"Do you think it well in your position to be obliged to a man in his?" asked Percivale.
"I do. I am glad of the chance. It will bring me into friendly relations with him."
"Do you wish, then, to be in friendly relations with him?"
"Indubitably. In what other relations do you suppose a clergyman ought to be with one of his parishioners?"
"You didn't invite him into your parish, I presume."
"No; and he didn't invite me. The thing was settled in higher quarters. There we are, anyhow; and I have done quite a stroke of business in borrowing that money of him."