He was sure that
Mrs. Brownlow's good sense and instinct were to be trusted, a dictum
which not a little surprised her brother-in-law, who had never ceased
to think of "poor Joe's fancy" as a mere child, and who forgot that
she was fifteen years older than at her marriage.
He told his wife what Dr. Lucas had said, to which she replied,
"That's just the way. Men know nothing about it."
However, Dr. Drake's offer was sufficiently eligible to be accepted.
Moreover, it proved that the most available house at Kenminster could
not be got ready for the family before the winter, so that the move
could not take place till the spring. In the meantime, as Dr. Drake
could not marry till Easter, the lower part of the house was to be
given up to him, and Carey and Janet felt that they had a reprieve.
CHAPTER V. BRAINS AND NO BRAINS.
I do say, thou art quick in answers:
Thou heatest my blood.-—Love's Labours Lost.
Kem'ster, as county tradition pronounced what was spelt Kenminster, a
name meaning St. Kenelm's minster, had a grand collegiate church and
a foundation-school which, in the hands of the Commissioners, had of
late years passed into the rule of David Ogilvie, Esq., a spare,
pale, nervous, sensitive-looking man of eight or nine and twenty, who
sat one April evening under his lamp, with his sister at work a
little way off, listening with some amusement to his sighs and groans
at the holiday tasks that lay before him.
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