"Well, you've got home," remarked the housekeeper closing her book. "Was there many out?"
"Would have been more if you hadn't staid at home, Miss Redwood," Norton replied.
"When you're as old as I am, my young gentleman, you'll know that folks don't do things without reasons."
"Ah!" said Norton. "But are they always good reasons?"
"That's their own look out," said the housekeeper. "What did you go to church for this evening, for instance?"
"I've just been telling my sister," said Norton. "But what, in the name of Rabbi Solomon, and all the Rabbis, ever took David Bartholomew there?"
"Ain't he a Jew?" said the housekeeper.
"Of course he is. And he don't love Christians, I can tell you, except one here and there."
"He does now," said Matilda in a low voice.
"What?" said Norton.