“I find him acting as Mr Stumfold’s curate.”
“Yes; and when I come to warn you, you insult me. He is Mr Stumfold’s curate, and in many respects he is well fitted for his office.”
“But has he two or three wives already, Mrs Stumfold?”
“I never said that he had.”
“I thought you hinted it.”
“I never hinted it, Miss Mackenzie. If you would only be a little more careful in the things which you allow yourself to say, it would be better for yourself; and better for me too, while I am with you.”
“I declare you said something about two or three wives; and if there is anything of that kind true of a gentleman and a clergyman, I don’t think he ought to be allowed to go about as a single gentleman. I mean as a curate. Mr Maguire is nothing to me,—nothing whatever; and I don’t see why I should ha
