CHAPTER III

TOUCHING MATTERS CLERICAL AND CONTROVERSIAL Brockhurst had rarely appeared more blessed by spacious sunshine and stately cheerfulness than during the remaining weeks of that summer. A spirit of unclouded serenity possessed the place, both indoors and out. If rain fell, it was only at night. And this, as so much else, Julius March noted duly in his diary. For that was the period of elaborate private chronicles, when persons of intelligence and position still took themselves, their doings and their emotions with most…