That's wot they call 'is surplus, an' I wish I 'ad the job of ironin' it." Order was restored, but at intervals the girls broke into ripples of hysterical laughter.

Then Chook saw the organ, with its rows of painted pipes, and nudged Jonah.
"Wot price that fer a mouth-orgin, eh?
Yer'd want a extra pair o' bellows ter play that." Jonah examined the instrument with the interest of a musician, surprised by the enormous tubes, packed stiffly in rows, the plaything of a giant; but he still kept an eye on the pair that were being married, with the nervous interest of a criminal watching an execution.
The women, to whom weddings were an afternoon's distraction, like the matinees of the richer, stared about the building.

Mrs Yabsley, wedged with difficulty in the narrow pew, pretended that they were made uncomfortable on purpose to keep people awake during the sermon.
Presently Ada and Pinkey, who had been examining the memorial tablets on the walls, began to argue whether the dead people were buried under the floor of the church.

Pinkey decided they were, and shivered at the thought.

Ada called her a fool; they nearly quarrelled.
When their turn came, the Canon advanced to meet them, setting them at their ease with a few kindly words, less a priest than a courteous host welcoming his guests.