I prepared for the worst, and the worst would undoubtedly have come if Dicky Dod had not suddenly remembered having seen a man with a foreign telegram looking for somebody in the Cathedral.
"It's a feat!" reiterated Mrs.Portheris as the Senator left us in pursuit of the man with the telegram.
"It's fourteen feet," cried the Senator from a safe distance, "out of the perpendicular!" and left us to take the consequences..