Especially in the department of the commissariat she showed great activity, and the reputation the vicar had acquired for feeding his pupils well had perhaps more to do with his success than he imagined.

She was never tired of repeating that Englishmen needed plenty of good food, and she had no principles which she did not practise.

She even thought it right to lecture young Angleside upon his idleness at stated intervals.

He always replied with great gentleness that he was awfully stupid, you know, and Mr.Ambrose was awfully good about it and he hoped he should not be pulled when he went up.

And strange to relate he actually passed his examination and matriculated, to his own immense astonishment and to the no small honour and glory of the Reverend Augustin Ambrose, vicar of Billingsfield, Essex.