And he built the people a chapel on a bit of freehold he bought for them.

He was a great Nonconformist, a staunch Baptist up to the day of his death--a much stauncher one,' she said significantly, 'than his daughter is.' 'Ah, I begin to spot her!' 'You have heard about the baptism ?' 'I know something of it.' 'Her conduct has given mortal offence to the scattered people of the denomination that her father was at such pains to unite into a body.' Somerset could guess the remainder, and in thinking over the circumstances did not state what he had seen.

She added, as if disappointed at his want of curiosity-- 'She would not submit to the rite when it came to the point.

The water looked so cold and dark and fearful, she said, that she could not do it to save her life.' 'Surely she should have known her mind before she had gone so far ?' Somerset's words had a condemnatory form, but perhaps his actual feeling was that if Miss Power had known her own mind, she would have not interested him half so much.
'Paula's own mind had nothing to do with it!' said Miss De Stancy, warming up to staunch partizanship in a moment.

'It was all undertaken by her from a mistaken sense of duty.