Where did they get the money to buy those wonderful bonnets which appeared every Sunday?
Mr Barham was very meek, and agreed to everything that was said.

No doubt he had a plan ready formed for inducing Mrs Yeld to have mass said regularly within her husband's palace, but he did not even begin to bring it about on this occasion.

It was not till he made some apparently chance allusion to the superior church-attending qualities of 'our people,' that Mrs Yeld drew herself up and changed the conversation by observing that there had been a great deal of rain lately.
When the ladies were gone the bishop at once put himself in the way of conversation with the priest, and asked questions as to the morality of Beccles.

It was evidently Mr Barham's opinion that 'his people' were more moral than other people, though very much poorer.

'But the Irish always drink,' said Mr Hepworth.
'Not so much as the English, I think,' said the priest.