"In case I don't agree with you about that Chateau--what-you-call-it," he said, "you won't mind my sending home for a bottle of sherry ?" The next event of the day was a visit to the most interesting monument of antiquity in the town.

In the absence of the doctor, caused by professional engagements, Miss Henley took Mountjoy to see the old church--and Mrs.Vimpany accompanied them, as a mark of respect to Miss Henley's friend.
When there was a chance of being able to speak confidentially, Iris was eager in praising the doctor's wife.

"You can't imagine, Hugh, how agreeable she has been, and how entirely she has convinced me that I was wrong, shamefully wrong, in thinking of her as I did.

She sees that you dislike her, and yet she speaks so nicely of you.

'Your clever friend enjoys your society,' she said; 'pray accompany me when I take him to see the church.' How unselfish!" Mountjoy kept his own counsel.