She lay in wait for him as he stepped out under the great porch, with a clean surplice on his arm.
"Hetty Wesley"
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
The sermon ended and the benediction pronounced, he fetched from the vestry the white surplice in which he had read the prayers, and came back to the pew in which the family waited as usual for the rest of the congregation to leave the church.
"Hetty Wesley"
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Mrs. Wesley took the surplice, as she invariably took her husband's, to carry it home and hang it in the wardrobe.
"Hetty Wesley"
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch