"How can I say?" asked poor Rivaulx. "She says no one must."
"Quite right," said Bradstock. "Who will believe any one, Titania? Let's have lunch and be friendly and stop this. I'm very hungry, Pen. And let's see the baby."
The duchess shivered.
"I cannot and will not see it," said Titania. "For by all accounts, it is an adopted illegitimate child. If Penelope will send it back to the person she got it of, and own the truth, I will forgive her and have lunch, for I am very faint."
"I want to see the baby, Pen," said Augustin, with his hand on Pen's shoulder. "You know, Pen, they still say it's rather dusky."
Penelope was very indignant.
"He's not," she cried. "They sha'n't say it any more. Bob, tell that girl up-stairs to bring him down."
And Bob ran up-stairs like a monkey up a stick.
"I decline to see it," said Titania. "A baby without a name is a terrible object to me. It is an insult to the bishop and to the Church to bring one into the room. I will retire into the open air and try to breathe again."
Goby assisted her outside.