"That's well," he said. "I always think it the prime question in a coat, whether it is comfortable."
He came back to his place in the window, so making an end of the subject; but Rotha had not said all that she wished to say.
"Mrs. Cord wanted me to put this on to-day, though it was not Sunday; was she right?"
"Eight? certainly. Why should one be better dressed Sunday than any other day?"
"I thought people did—" said Rotha, much confused in her ideas.
"And right enough," said Mr. Digby, recollecting himself, "in the cases where the work to be done in the week would injure or soil a good dress. But in other cases?—"
"On Sunday one goes to church," said Rotha.
"Well,—what then?"
"Oughtn't one to be better dressed to go to church?"
"Why should you?"