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Updated: June 13, 2025
Even the Sabbath is not sacred to you. What is this story we hear of you that no girl may even go to church without paying 'Tom Tufton's toll' at the lych gate?" Tom broke into a sudden laugh. "They like that toll well enough, father, I can tell you; else they could go round the other way.
A loud sniff expressive of grave misgiving succeeded the remark. The speaker one of a knot of village women edged herself a little further forward to look up the long strip of red baize that stretched from the church porch to the lych gate near which she stood.
He talked about dates, and king posts and gables, and mullions, and foundations, and records, and Sir Thomas Wyatt, and poetry, and Julius Caesar, and Roman remains, and lych gates and churches, and dog's-tooth moulding till the brain of Oswald reeled. I suppose that Albert's uncle remarked that all our mouths were open, which is a sign of reels in the brain, for he whispered
They left the garden, and picked their way down the muddy lane until they reached the village street. Clare and Elfie were delighted with all they saw, especially with the old church. It had a typical country churchyard, with a large yew tree inside the old lych gate.
"On the following Sunday Agnes came to church for the last time, and after the service I went into the vestry to take off my gown; and as I followed the stream of worshippers leaving the porch, I saw her joined by Lewis, who walked with her towards the lych gate, and before I reached them I distinctly saw him place a note in her hand.
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