He damned both kinsman and chaplain, and raged at the impudence of both in daring to approach him, swearing to horsewhip my lord if they ever met, and to have the chaplain kicked out of the house, and beyond the park gates themselves.

But Mistress Clorinda chose to make it her whim to take it in better humour, and as a joke with a fine point to it.

She laughed at her father's storming, and while the chaplain quailed before it with pallid countenance and fairly hang-dog look, she seemed to find it but a cause for outbursts of merriment.
"Hold thy tongue a bit, Dad," she cried, when he had reached his loudest, "and let his reverence tell us what his message is.

We have not even heard it." "Want not to hear it!" shouted Sir Jeoffry.

"Dost think I'll stand his impudence?
Not I!" "What was your message ?" demanded the young lady of the chaplain.