After devotions are over,
Hope writes,
Digby praises the painting, saying it looks just like himself and
Everell at the moment Digby discovered him. Both
Master Cradock and
Aunt Grafton take credit for Hope’s proficiency in painting, and the painting is enough to distract them briefly from their recent squabbling over matters of church and state.
Jennet, meanwhile, has not changed, “the same
untired and tiresome railer.”