It is like finding a Roundhead delighting in Royalist sports and plays, or a Royalist chanting Roundhead psalms--if you can imagine an evangelical Royalist.

Anyway, it is rather a fine combination.
"I only wish I could help to make things easier for Jean.

I have far more money than I want; she has so little.

I'm afraid she has to plan and worry a good deal how to clothe and feed and educate those boys.

I know that she is very anxious that David should not be too scrimped for money at Oxford, and consequently spends almost nothing on herself.