If you had heard what the Archdeacon said of him the other day, you would think differently.' 'He's another parson,' said the Squire.

'Of course they butter each other up.' Then he went on to the other paragraph.

'I wouldn't have said anything about his wife.' 'That would not have been civil,' said Aunt Polly; 'and as you insist on my asking him, I do not wish to be rude.' And so the letter was sent as it was written.
It reached Caldigate on the day which Hester was passing with her mother at Chesterton,--on the Tuesday.

She had left Folking on the Monday, intending to return on the Wednesday.

Caldigate was therefore alone with his father.