It was after this disheartening statement that Aunt Aggie found herself drawn towards an evangelical and purer form of religion.

The Archdeacon subsequently married, or rather became guilty of ecclesiastical bigamy.

But Aunt Aggie throughout life retained pessimistic views respecting the celibacy of the clergy.
* * * * * Aunt Mary bestowed a strong businesslike peck, emphasized by contact with the point of a stone-cold nose, on Magdalen's cheek.

Aunt Aggie greeted her niece with small inarticulate cluckings of affection.

Have you ever kissed a tepid poached egg?
Then you know what it is to salute Aunt Aggie's cheek.
"Where are Fay and Bessie ?" enquired Aunt Mary instantly.