He regarded his daughter with the greatest respect, and left in her hands everything that he decently could.

And, to do her justice, Jenny was a very benevolent, as well as capable, despot.

In short, the Rector plays no great part in this drama beyond that of a discreet, and mostly silent, Greek chorus of unimpeachable character.

He disapproved deeply, of course, of Frank's change of religion--but he disapproved with that same part of him that appreciated Lord Talgarth.

It seemed to him that Catholicism, in his daughter's future husband, was a defect of the same kind as would be a wooden leg or an unpleasant habit of sniffing--a drawback, yet not insuperable.