The saint and the sinner
"Pandora was not eavesdropping. It was only by accident that she found herself overhearing the horrifying conversation between her uncle and guardian--the Bishop of Lindchester--and his wife. 'I have not had a chance to tell you,' began Pandora's uncle, 'that Prosper Witheridge asked me yesterday if he could pay his addresses to Pandora.' 'You mean to say he wishes to marry her?' asked the Bishop's wife. 'She should be grateful, deeply grateful, that a good man should wish to make her his wife.'" --Half title page.