CHAPTER 9Colonel Crofts was duly inducted and though he privately agreed with the Deanery that any induction in which the Bishop or his representative took part was practically tantamount to heresy and an interdict, he had to recognize the validity of the ceremony and comfort himself by reflecting that the Bishop was merely an instrument.
This sentiment he confided to a small lunch-party given by the Carters in his honour, at which Sir Robert Fielding, the chancellor of the diocese, with his wife and daughter Anne were present.
“But Thy most perfect instrument
In working out a pure intent
Is man, arrayed for mutual slaughter,
Yea, c*****e is Thy daughter,”
said Miss Anne Fielding, who had just begun to include Wordsworth among the list of her favourite English poets and had a very go
