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Reverend John Wesley Robinson had just returned from his morning service in the First Methodist Church, pleasantly tired and stimulated by the exercise of his sacred office. He was a young man of vigorous, indeed athletic, physical frame, of excellent education, and was supposed to be somewhat radical in his theological position; a popular preacher and, in vulgar parlance, "a good mixer"; greatly liked by his congregation too he was, and by his wife adored. To the companions of his boyhood days and to his college mates he was known as "Wes" Robinson, but his wife, being of High Anglican extraction and accepting his denominational relations with considerable reluctance, abjured the "Wesley" in his name and called him Jack.
He was late for lunch and therefore was received at the door with vigorous chiding.