The Father took it, and, as he did so, turned his beaming blue eyes on his host. Then he smiled.
"What!" he said, in his pleasant, light tenor voice. "You do go to church sometimes, then?"
"To-night is the first time for ages. And, mind you, I was tremendously bored."
The Father still smiled, and his blue eyes gently twinkled.
"Dear, dear!" he said, "what a pity!"
"But not by the sermon," Guildea added. "I don't pay a compliment. I state a fact. The sermon didn't bore me. If it had, I should have said so, or said nothing."
"And which would you have done?"
The Professor smiled almost genially.
"Don't know," he said. "What wine d'you drink?"
"None, thank you. I'm a teetotaller. In my profession and milieu it is necessary to be one. Yes, I will have some soda water. I think you would have done the first."