He knew that from his first coming into the diocese he had been encountered with enmity by the archdeacon and the archdeacon's friends.

If left to himself he could feel and to a certain extent could resent such enmity.

But he had no faith in his wife's doctrine of emanations.

He had no faith in many things which she believed religiously;--and yet what could he do?
If he attempted to explain, she would stop him before he had got through the first half of his first sentence.
"If he is out on bail--," commenced the bishop.
"Of course he will be out on bail." "Then I think he should feel--" "Feel! such men never feel! What feeling can one expect from a convicted thief ?" "Not convicted as yet, my dear," said the bishop.
"A convicted thief," repeated Mrs.Proudie; and she vociferated the words in such a tone that the bishop resolved that he would for the future let the word convicted pass without notice.

After all she was only using the phrase in a peculiar sense given to it by herself.
[Illustration: "A convicted thief," repeated Mrs.Proudie.] "It won't be proper, certainly, that he should do the services," suggested the bishop.
"Proper! It would be a scandal to the whole diocese.