Archibald.

[Smiling.] The landed gentry hasn’t its old power. Promotion in the Church nowadays is given with new-fangled ideas about merit and scholarship and heaven knows what.

Mrs. Insoley.

I hope you never eat potatoes or bread?

Archibald.

I fly from them as I would from temptation.

Mrs. Insoley.

Nor soup?

Archibald.

It is as the scarlet woman to me.