"Say, I don't know what's come over me.

I feel as if I had been on the stump," he said in an embarrassed voice.
"I ain't talked to a soul about that country since I left.

I guess I got pretty full, and when you pulled the cork, out she come." During the tea hour Mrs.Gwynne tried to draw her visitor out to talk about his family, but here she failed.

Indeed a restraint appeared to fall upon him that nothing could dispel.

Immediately after tea Mrs.
Gwynne placed the Bible and Book of Prayers on the table, saying, "We follow the custom of reading prayers every evening after tea, Mr.
Sleighter.