"Denis, I have often told you not to ask questions," said Lady Atherley.
"When I am grown up," remarked Harold, "I will be an atheist."
"Do you know what an atheist is?" inquired his father.
"Yes, it is people who never go to church."
"But they go to lecture-rooms, which you would find worse."
"But they don't have sermons."
"Don't they? Hours long, especially when they bury each other."
"Oh!" said Harold, evidently taken aback, and somewhat reconciled to the church.
"When I am grown up," said Denis, "I mean to be the same church as Aunt Cissy."
"And what may that be?" inquired the Canon.