thing for you to start stirring up your own father's horrid past. What about decency and all that sort of rot?"
"Well," she said, "what about it? If it comes to that, I regard it as pretty indecent of a man in my father's position to want to announce himself as the author of a mushy Best Seller. A dignitary of the Church of England isn't free to act just as he pleases. He's got to remember that there are millions of people about who are only too ready to seize on anything that will discredit the Church of England—Atheists and Nonconformists and Bolshevists, and people like that. But what I'm principally thinking of is dear mother's disappointment if father goes and cuts himself out of the running for a bishopric. I say it'll be a worthy and righteous action, Bish, to prevent him from making an addled egg of himself like this, and how