You call attention to the great poverty and distress all over the world, and you say the times demand that people live far simpler, less extravagant lives.

And yet here you live yourself like a prince.

Like a prince," he repeated, after a peculiar gesture, which seemed to include not only what was in the room but all that was in the house.
Philip glanced at his wife as people do when they suspect a third person being out of his mind, and saw that her expression was very much like his own feeling, although not exactly.

Then they both glanced around the room.
It certainly did look luxurious, even if not princely.

The parsonage was an old mansion which had once belonged to a wealthy but eccentric sea captain.