"He'll have more time upon his hands," said Mr. Biles, retired
wholesale ironmonger and junior churchwarden, to Mrs. Biles, turning
the corner of Acacia Avenue--"he'll have more time to make himself a
curse and a stumbling-block."

"And if this 'near relation' of his is anything like him--"

"Which you may depend upon it is the Case, or he'd never have thought
of him," was the opinion of Mr. Biles.

"I shall give that Mrs. Pennycoop," said Mrs. Biles, "a piece of my
mind when I meet her."

But of what use was that?