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`` Oh ! no objection at all , sir , '' put in Mrs. Partington , still a little grimly . -LRB- She was still secretly resenting being called upon at half-past six . You were usually considered immune from this kind of thing after five o'clock . -RRB- `` So I thought I must just look in and catch you one evening , '' explained the clergyman once more , `` and tell you that we 're your friends here -- the clergy , you know -- and about the church and all that . '' He was an extremely conscientious young man -- this Mr. Parham-Carter -- an old Etonian , of course , and now in his first curacy . It was all pretty bewildering to him , too , this great and splendid establishment , the glorious church by Bodley , with the Magnificat in Gothic lettering below the roof , the well-built and furnished clergy-house , the ladies ' house , the zeal , the self-devotion , the parochial machinery , the Band of Hope , the men 's and boys ' clubs , and , above all , the furious district-visiting .