Very few persons in Herculaneum had been inside, but these few circulated the report that the old house had the handsomest interior in town.

Straightway Warrington's income became four times as large as it really was.
The old aunt and the "girl" kept the house scrupulously clean, for there was no knowing when Richard might take it into his head to come home.

The "girl's" husband took care of the stables and exercised the horses.

And all went very well.
Warrington seldom went to church.

It was not because he was without belief; there was a strong leaven of faith underlying his cynicism.
Frankly, sermons bored him.