'When girls have headaches it comes from tight-lacing, and not walking
enough, and carrying all manner of nasty smells about with them.
I know what headaches mean. How is a woman not to have a headache,
when she carries a thing on the back of her poll as big as a gardener's
wheel-barrow? Come, it's a fine evening, and we'll go out and look
at the towers. You've never even seen them yet, I suppose?'
So they went out, and finding the verger at the Cathedral door,
he being a great friend of Miss Stanbury, they walked up and down
the aisles, and Dorothy was instructed as to what would be expected
from her in regard to the outward forms of religion. She was to
go to the Cathedral service on the morning of every week-day, and
on Sundays in the afternoon. On Sunday mornings she was to attend
the little church of St. Margaret. On Sunday evenings it was the
practice of Miss Stanbury to read a sermon in the dining-room to all
of whom her household consisted. Did Dorothy like daily services?
Dorothy, who was more patient than her brother, and whose life had
been much less energetic, said that she had no objection to going
to church every day when there was not too much to do.
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