They almost applauded.
They told him afterward that he was immense, and invited him to address them whenever he returned to London.
“Wait,” he reflected, “till I get back to Zenith and tell old Potts and Hickenlooper that!”
As they rode to the hotel on the ’bus, Cleo sighed, “Oh, you were wonderful! But I never knew you had such a wild time of it in your first pastorate.”
“Oh, well, it was nothing. A man that’s a real man has to take the rough with the smooth.”
“That’s so!”