[[11]] It was said to be the finest bit of scaffold-work ever put up. I secured an excellent photograph of it.
[[12]] Archbishop Bourne of Westminster had been created a Cardinal by Pius X. in the Consistory of November 27, 1911.
[[13]] "I never hear Gregorian music on earth," he said to me once, "but I trust I shall hear nothing else in heaven. There are 'many mansions' there, and I humbly hope that my mansion will be as far removed as possible from 'Hummel in B flat'!"
[[14]] I mentioned this in my description of the wedding on our return to Arundel. The comment of one of our party, a lady rather "slow in the uptake" (as we say in Scotland) was, "But what did he mean? Whom was she leaning on? was it King George?"
[[15]] The Duke of Sutherland died about a year later.
[[16]] Pugin justified his love for "dim religious" churches with his usual delightful inconsequence. "In the thirteenth century," he said in effect, "no one thought of reading in church: they told their beads and made acts of faith and said their prayers. My church is a thirteenth-century church, to all intents and purposes—ergo!"
[[17]] It was a case of "inflammatory gouty eczema," too long neglected.