“How?”
“I thought I should have found something to do that would have enabled us to live in better style. I'd had a plan.”
“What plan?”
“It's fallen through.”
“But what plan was it?”
“I thought I should be able to set up a sort of broad church chapel. I had a promise.”
Her voice was rich with indignation. “And she has betrayed you?”
“No,” he said, “I have betrayed her.”
Lady Ella's face showed them still at cross purposes. He looked down again and frowned. “I can't do that chapel business,” he said. “I've had to let her down. I've got to let you all down. There's no help for it. It isn't the way. I can't have anything to do with Lady Sunderbund and her chapel.”
“But,” Lady Ella was still perplexed.