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Called on to embrace domestic duties, and meet local social obligations, including polite endurance of long-drawn disquisitions regarding Canon Horniblow's impending curate. The drop proved disconcerting, or would have eminently done so had not another element disquieting yet very dear come into play.
Whereupon, remembering her own two girls, May and Doris good as gold, bless them, yet, her shrewdness pronounced, when compared with Damaris, but homely pieces the excellent woman sighed. What did it all then amount to? Mrs. Horniblow's logic failed. "All eyes" and very lovely ones at that Damaris might be; yet her tranquillity and serenity appeared beyond question.
Then suddenly, as is the way with life, events crowded on one another, the drama thickened, sensation was tuned to a higher pitch. And it all began, not unludicrously, through the praiseworthy, if rather ill-timed moral indignation of Canon Horniblow's newly installed curate, Reginald Sawyer.
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