"How long does he stay?"
"I think only a day or two. I have his first note up-stairs, if I did not burn it," answered the Baronet.
"I'm glad I'm to meet him—very glad indeed. I think it's five years since I met his lordship at the consecration of the new church of Clopton Friars. I always found him very kind—very. He likes the school-house fellows."
"You'd better get up your parochial experiences a little, and your theology, eh? They say he expects his people to be alive. You used to be rather good at theology—usen't you?"
Dives smiled.
"Pretty well, Jekyl."
"And what do you want of him, Dives?"
"Oh! he could be useful to me in fifty ways. I was thinking—you know there's that archdeaconry of Priors." Dives replied pretty nearly in a whisper.
"By Jove! yes—a capital thing—I forgot it;" and Sir Jekyl laughed heartily.
"Why do you laugh, Jekyl?" he asked, a little drily.