Out of her sphere - University Library

A COOL RECEPTION. 69
much pleasanter frame of mind than he had
been in at Tring. He was amongst his own
people, and things went on at Drowsehead
much as if the world had been asleep there
for the last thirty years, and was slowly
—
very slowly—waking up, but without the
slightest intention of catching up those who
had been awake all those years. Life went
on slowly and peacefully at Drowsehead ;
disturba.nces came from without, it is true,
in the shape of such letters as had followed
him to Tring ; but, at Drowsehead, the
Bishop had his secretary and his chaplain
to lighten his cares, and he was not brought
in actual contact with the new men, and
the new ideas, that were making such havoc
with the things that had been.
Maurice, too, did not trouble him very
much here. Maurice was really sorry for
his father's illness, and let himself be talked
to and reasoned with both by his father and
his chaplain—a man who, as a Bishop's