He's father-in-law to our dean, sir; and father-in-law to Archdeacon Grantly also." "His daughters have all gone into the profession, then ?" "Why, yes; but Miss Eleanor--for I remember her before she was married at all,--when they lived at the hospital--" "At the hospital ?" "Hiram's hospital, sir.

He was warden, you know.

You should go and see the hospital, sir, if you never was there before.

Well, Miss Eleanor,--that was his youngest,--she married Mr Bold as her first.
But now she's the dean's lady." "Oh; the dean's lady, is she ?" "Yes, indeed.

And what do you think, sir?
Mr Harding might have been dean himself if he'd liked.