'
'Cherry always does bother Alda. I can't help it, Clem, they must rub
on somehow and if you can make Theodore happy, the rest does not so
much signify.'
Not signify! Clement did not know whether he was standing on his head
or his heels, and never guessed that not only was she too much
absorbed in the present thoroughly to realise the absent, but that
she would not venture to send orders based on his report, which in
her secret soul she qualified by his love of importance and
interference. However, he went away, and was not seen again all the
ensuing week--the early part of which was very trying, for the fever
recurred regularly about noon and midnight, and always brought
rambling, which since that conversation with Wilmet, had taken the
turn of talking about being buried in a surplice, and of continually
recurring to the 134th Psalm, which, it was now remembered, Lance had
shortly before taken part in, over the grave of an old lay-vicar,
who, boy and man, had served the Cathedral for nearly sixty years.
Often, too, the poor little fellow seemed struggling with some sense
of demerit--whether positive disgrace, or suspicion, or the general
Christian feeling of unworthiness, Wilmet and John Harewood could
never make out; and they did not choose to speak of these wanderings
either to Will or to Mr.
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