1. Matty was just going to church to hear the gospel, like any good, god-fearing person, in the days when holidays were not your bank holiday beanfeast, but a day to spend in church = the origin of holiday is Holy Day..... This was the era when you were fined for not going to church, if your station required you to be there. Churchwardens could come and look for you and drag you to the pillory if you couldn't come up with a good reason (like being dead!) for not attending divine service - which is what the 'gospel for to hear' would indicate. Churchwardens these days are a little more lenient. I wait until your favourite TV programme is on before phone you up.....

2. He was just looking around a little light conversation, maybe just wanting to ask Mrs Jones about her Berts' lumbago, or see if there was a new cobbler in town..... when this woman he identifies as Lady Donald approaches him and invites him home.... she may have needed a jar unscrewed, or a spider removed from the bedroom.... who can say.

3 He did try to remind her that she was married - as the single person, he would have been reasonably OK, if it were Lord Donald, it would have been more than OK, it was sort of expected, but because she was a woman, she gets the ultimate punishment, a clear case of sexism and male nepotism. She knew that the punishment would be more severe for her, but still she enticed him in.

4. That servant, he didn't have to go sneaking round and spying, he could have turned a blind eye - he must have been a slimy bit of work to have been doing his job when the boss wasn't around. Think of the blackmail possibilities he could have had, wasted. And I hope he got something nasty from swimming in the broad broad stream without his boots on.

And after all that, the silly woman STILL insists that he is better than her husband.... all she had to do was fake it, and she'd have been alright!!

LTS