About this story
The new Rector reassigns your chapel by printed notice, and three aunts take rooms at the Blue Boar to audit you over tea. When Leonora offers the living at Skelmersdale, your refusal endows Wharfside by deed instead. Forty chapters carry Frank and Lucy Wodehouse to an August wedding and a church rising behind the school.
How it opens
The parish church looked especially unfortunate while you discussed its proposed repairs with Mr Folgate.
You were Frank Wentworth, curate of St Roque's and unofficial pastor to the neglected people of Wharfside.
Mr MorganConsecrated walls deserve something better than contempt, however badly taste has served them.
Mrs MorganWe did not expect to find you advising the architect after what William discovered by the canal.
Choose
Acknowledge that your criticism of the building was careless.
Explain that your service begins in half an hour and ask to speak afterward.