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'He makes himself so confoundedly agreeable that people are always asking him to dinner: he is terribly secular, is Lawrence, but he is young and will mend. Come up to the vicarage and dine with me, Ursula; I want you to taste Mrs. Drabble's pancakes: they are food for angels, as Lawrence always says.
'Every one has a crotchet, and, after all, she is a worthy little woman, and makes us very comfortable. I never knew what good cooking meant until I came to the vicarage. And indeed Mrs. Drabble's custards and flaky crust were famed in the village. Miss Darrell had once begged very humbly that her cook Parker might take a lesson from her, but Mrs. Drabble refused point-blank.
He certainly agreed to a new carpet for the study and a more comfortable chair, but he turned a perfectly deaf ear when Mr. Tudor proposed that the drawing-room should be refurnished. 'It is such a pretty room, Mr. Cunliffe, he remonstrated; 'and it will be ready by the time you want to get married. Mother Drabble's arrangement of chairs and tables is simply hideous. I was quite ashamed when Mrs.
Drabble in that; they were both discursive and parenthetical speakers, only Mrs. Drabble's meaning was more involved, but before I had time to answer, a deep voice from the kitchen startled us. 'Mother, how long do you mean to keep Miss Garston in that cold, dark place? It is enough to starve her, And at this rebuke Mrs. Barton hurried me into the front kitchen.
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