The very title which Sir Marmaduke had acquired was repulsive to him, and had induced him to tell his wife more than once that Sir this or Sir that could not be fitting associates for a poor East-end clergyman.

Then his wife's niece had married a man of fashion,--a man supposed at St.Diddulph's to be very closely allied to fashion; and Mr.Outhouse had never been induced even to dine in the house in Curzon Street.

When, therefore, he heard that Mr.and Mrs.Trevelyan were to be separated within two years of their marriage, it could not be expected that he should be very eager to lend to the two sisters the use of his rectory.
There had been interviews between Mr.Outhouse and Trevelyan, and between Mrs.Outhouse and her niece; and then there was an interview between Mr.Outhouse and Emily, in which it was decided that Mrs.
Trevelyan would not go to the parsonage of St.Diddulph's.

She had been very outspoken to her uncle, declaring that she by no means intended to carry herself as a disgraced woman.

Mr.Outhouse had quoted St.Paul to her; "Wives, obey your husbands." Then she had got up and had spoken very angrily.