It's less than half an hour, isn't it ?" It was arranged at that, and the elders drove off.

Peter raised his hat to Sir Robert, who turned up the street, and together he and Hilda crossed over the wide thoroughfare and started down for the park.
There was silence for a little, and it was Peter who broke it.
"Just before breakfast," he said, "you asked me what I should do, and I had no chance to reply.

Well, they were talking of it in the vestry just now, and I've made up my mind.

I shall write to-night to the Bishop and ask for a chaplaincy." They walked on a hundred yards or so in silence again.

Then Hilda broke it.