CHAPTER VIII

THE CHERUB The advent of Bobby Chislehurst to Old Town made a considerable difference to Bessie Trupp. She was not at all in love with him and he only pleasantly so with her; but as she told her friend the Colonel, "He's the first curate we've ever had in Old Town you can be like that with." "Like that is good," said the Colonel. "Give me my tables. Meet it is I write it down.--It says nothing and expresses everything." Now if the clergy in Old Town with the exception of Bess's pet antipathy, the Reverend Spink,…