It was evident that there was to be a further toilet before she sailed up the middle of the cathedral choir.

She had on a large loose cap with no other strings than those which were wanted for tying it beneath her chin, a cap with which the household and the chaplain were well acquainted, but which seemed ungracious in the eyes of Mr.Robarts after all the well-dressed holiday doings of the last week.

She wore also a large, loose, dark-coloured wrapper, which came well up round her neck, and which was not buoyed out, as were her dresses in general, with an under mechanism of petticoats.

It clung to her closely, and added to the inflexibility of her general appearance.

And then she had encased her feet in large carpet slippers, which no doubt were comfortable, but which struck her visitor as being strange and unsightly.