RECOUNTING AN ASTONISHING DEPOSITION Theresa Bilson bustled upstairs.

Barring the absence of the extra brake, which had caused--and for this she could not be sorry since didn't it justify her "attitude" towards her recalcitrant ex-pupil ?--some inconvenient overcrowding in transit to and from the station, and barring the rain, which set in between five and six o'clock, the expedition to Harchester passed off with considerable _eclat_.

Such, in any case, was Theresa's opinion, she herself having figured conspicuously in the foreground.

During the inspection of the Cathedral the Dean paid her quite marked attention; thanks, in part, to her historical and archaeological knowledge--of which she made the most, and to her connection with the Verity family--of which she made the most also.

In precisely what that connection might consist, the learned and timid old gentleman, being very deaf and rather near-sighted, failed to gather.