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I did understand what Miss Pettigrew meant, but I do not think that Lalage ought to be given: the whole credit. Selby-Harrison did the research. My mother went on: "Father Maconchy, the P.P., stopped me on the road this afternoon to say that he hoped there was no truth in the report that you are mixed up in what he calls a disgraceful attempt at proselytizing.
You've heard of Hilda." Hilda's name was printed on my memory. She is one of the three members of the committee of the A.T.R.S. I shook hands with her and asked for Selby-Harrison. "You haven't surely," I said, "come without Selby-Harrison, who won the junior ex.? The committee ought to hold together." "We intended to bring him," said Lalage, "but there were difficulties.
"I hope she'll pass," he said, "but I'm rather doubtful." "Oh, she'll pass all right, she and Hilda. Selby-Harrison may possibly be stuck." "She's very weak in astronomy." "Still," I said, "the Puffin is a perfect lamb. I think we may count on that." The Archdeacon eyed me even more suspiciously than before. I could see that he thought I had been drinking heavily.
The next sheet of Selby-Harrison's accounts was equally business-like in form. Anti-Tommy-Rot Gazette Guarantee Fund Trinity College, Dublin, No. 175, and at the rooms of the Elizabethan Society Per Contra. Examined and found correct Kindly remit at once to avoid legal proceedings. J. Selby-Harrison. The last thing in the world I wanted was further legal proceedings.
"Do you mean to tell me that the Irish newspapers have been so incredibly stupid as not to publish the articles sent by you, Hilda, and Selby-Harrison?" "Not a single one of them," said Lalage. "And the bishops," I said, "still wear their purple stocks, their aprons, and their gaiters; and still talk tommyrot through the length and breadth of the land."
Selby-Harrison made sure of that before we did it, so it doesn't break up the continuity, which is most important for us all. Lord Thormanby and the Archdeacon were jawing away like anything while we were searching about for the hanker, and took no notice of us, although the Archdeacon is frightfully polite now as a rule, quite different from what he used to be.
"It ought to be fairly obvious," I said, "that I'm alluding to Mr. Titherington's attempt to find out Hilda's surname from young Selby-Harrison." Hilda giggled convulsively. Then she got out her pocket handkerchief and choked. "Tithers," said Lalage, "is past caring about anybody's name. He's got influenza. It came on him the night before last at twelve o'clock. He's pretty bad."
I'll get Selby-Harrison to write, too. I'll " Lalage was gone. I rang the bell savagely and told the nurse to get my pens, ink, and paper. I thoroughly agreed with Titherington. Lalage's proceedings must be stopped at once. I wrote the first page of a letter to the Archdeacon and expressed myself, so far as I could in that limited space, strongly.
E. E. A. would look well at the head of your notepaper and might be worked up into a monogram." "I daresay we shall make a change," said Lalage, "but if we do we'll be a guild, not a society or an association. Guild is the proper word for anything connected with the church, or high-class furniture, or art needlework. Selby-Harrison will look into the matter for us.
My book will, I fear, make it plain that he was an active power in the various reforming societies which caused so much annoyance to many people. If I could, I would leave Selby-Harrison out of the book altogether, but to do so would render unintelligible the whole sequence of events which resulted from the discovery of that text in First Timothy.
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