He is an excellent young man, and--" "Lady Lufton, if I do this, I can only do it in my own way, as best I may, using such words as God may give me at the time.

I hope that I am harsh to no man; but it is worse than useless, in all cases, to speak anything but the truth." "Of course--of course." "If the ears be too delicate to hear the truth, the mind will be too perverse to profit by it." And then Mr.Crawley got up to take his leave.

But Lady Lufton insisted that he should go with her to luncheon.

He hummed and ha'd and would fain have refused, but on this subject she was peremptory.

It might be that she was unfit to advise a clergyman as to his duties, but in a matter of hospitality she did know what she was about.