Jimmy tore it open. "Vera and I are going for a run round the country," Ethel wrote. "Will you come with us?"
Jimmy turned round to the hat rack and took down his cap and overcoat.
"Have you brought the car down for me?" he asked.
CHAPTER XXV
Mr. Grimmer looked up with a grin. "I don't know what the old joker will say if you bring your scheme to a head," he remarked.
Ethel, who was standing in front of the fireplace, smoking daintily, tried hard to look shocked.
"My dear Billy," she drawled. "That is hardly the way to speak of an Honorary Canon who expects to become a bishop, if his father-in-law lives long enough to get into another Cabinet. Then, for one thing, Jimmy won't propose for some time yet, not until Vera has been away and come back again; and when they are engaged what can the old joker, as you call him, do to me?"
"He might preach about you," her husband suggested.