He was the most delightful of hosts.

Lady Augusta Stanley, daughter of the Earl of Elgin, had been a favorite Maid of Honor to the Queen, and the Dean had accompanied the Prince of Wales on his tour to the Orient.

The Queen quite frequently slipped away from the palace for a quiet chat at the Deanery with this pair whom she so loved.

A marble bust of Victoria, by her daughter, the Princess Louise, stood in the parlor, a gift of the Queen.

If the Dean was very broad in his theology, his cultured wife was as decidedly evangelical in hers and her religious influence was very tonic in all respects.