Colonel Wharton.

He’s a first-rate fellow. He had a very good living in London at one time, and he resigned and took one in the East End instead.

John.

Really?

Colonel Wharton.

He said he wasn’t ordained to drink China tea with elderly women of means. [With a chuckle.] He says very good things sometimes.

Mrs. Wharton.

They were perfectly wonderful in the East End. They wanted to live in exactly the same way as their parishioners, so they did without a servant, and did all their housework, even their washing, themselves.

John.

It sounds hateful, but of course it really was heroic.