Since his extravagance he had shown himself to be an industrious, sensible, steady member of society;--and there was the money that he had earned! What young man had earned more in a shorter time, or had ever been more prudent in keeping it?
Davis and Newmarket were easily answered by a reference to the bank account.

Did he ever go to Newmarket now, though he was living so close to it?
On that matter Robert Bolton was very strong.
But Mrs.Nicholas had found out that Caldigate had spent certainly two Sundays running at Folking without going to church at all; and, as far as she could learn, he was altogether indifferent about public worship.
Mrs.Bolton, who could never bring herself to treat him as a son-in-law, but who was still obliged to receive him, taxed him to his face with his paganism.

'Have you no religion, Mr.Caldigate ?' He assured her that he had, and fell into a long discussion in which he thoroughly confused her, though he by no means convinced her that he was what he ought to be.

But he went with her to church twice on one Sunday, and showed her that he was perfectly familiar with the ways of the place.
But perhaps the loudest complaint came from the side of Babington; and here two sets of enemies joined their forces together who were thoroughly hostile to each other.

Mrs.Babington declared loudly that old Bolton had been an errand-boy in his youth, and that his father had been a porter and his mother a washerwoman.