CHAPTER XVIIIJean sat in the little stuffy fourteenth-century church with Oliver pressed against her side. It was a great promotion for Oliver, for usually the children went only to the children's service to evade the alternative burden of the Litany or the Ten Commandments. But when Oliver heard that Jean was going to church alone, he felt that he would acquire a mysterious grown-up charm by giving up his afternoon walk and acting as her escort. Mrs. Meadows had merely observed: 'Very well, Master Oliver, then you must sit it out.' And Oliver up to the Second Lesson had sat it out. He had found sufficient reward in the belligerency of the first hymn, 'Fight the good fight,' and in contemplating the stout figure of a crusading ancestor. Unfortunately he knew Guy de Falconer a little too we
