It so happened that Dartie, dining with him a week after the birth of his son and heir, had mentioned this aspiration of Winifred's.
"Call him Cato," said George, "it'll be damned piquant!" He had just won a tenner on a horse of that name.
"Cato!" Dartie had replied--they were a little 'on' as the phrase was even in those days--"it's not a Christian name." "Halo you!" George called to a waiter in knee breeches.

"Bring me the Encyc'pedia Brit.

from the Library, letter C." The waiter brought it.
"Here you are!" said George, pointing with his cigar: "Cato Publius Valerius by Virgil out of Lydia.

That's what you want.

Publius Valerius is Christian enough." Dartie, on arriving home, had informed Winifred.