There was no archery, and many of the inmates of the Castle were asleep.

There had been a question as to the propriety of Sabbath archery, in discussing which reference had been made to Laud's book of sports, and the growing idea that the National Gallery should be opened on the Lord's-day.

But the Duchess would not have the archery.

"We are just the people who shouldn't prejudge the question," said the Duchess.

The Duchess with various ladies, with the Pountneys and Gunners, and other obedient male followers, had been to church.