CHAPTER XV.
DOMESTIC SCENES The provisions arrived; Mr.Pyecroft proved himself agreeably competent and willing in the matter of their preparation; and such as had appetites gorged themselves.

Also Mr.Pyecroft proved himself agreeably competent and willing to do his full share, and more, in the matter of cleaning up.
Later in the forenoon, Mary again called on Mrs.De Peyster.

"I hope you don't mind a little praise directed at your family, Angelica," she said, in the loud voice she had adopted for that unfortunate.
"At first Jack and I thought your brother Archibald was--well--too pompous.

You know, clergymen are often that way.

But the more we see of him, the better we like him.