No doubt you felt this yourself ?" "Oh, entirely," said the rector.

"Surely in matters of belief a wife must follow her husband." "Exactly; especially as Tom's uncles occupy the position they do with regard to--" Mr.Furlong jerked his head backwards and pointed with his thumb over his shoulder in a way that his son knew was meant to indicate St.Osoph's Church.
The Overend brothers, who were Tom's uncles (his name being Tom Overend) were, as everybody knew, among the principal supporters of St.
Osoph's.

Not that they were, by origin, presbyterians.

But they were self-made men, which put them once and for all out of sympathy with such a place as St.Asaph's.

"We made ourselves," the two brothers used to repeat in defiance of the catechism of the Anglican Church.