And even when the most beautiful girl in the class married the demonstrator and thus terminated her studies in her second year, Spillikins realized that it was only because the man was, undeniably, a demonstrator and knew things.
Later on, when Spillikins went into business and into society, the same fate pursued him.

He loved, for at least six months, Georgiana McTeague, the niece of the presbyterian minister of St.Osoph's.

He loved her so well that for her sake he temporarily abandoned his pew at St.Asaph's, which was episcopalian, and listened to fourteen consecutive sermons on hell.

But the affair got no further than that.
Once or twice, indeed, Spillikins walked home with Georgiana from church and talked about hell with her; and once her uncle asked him into the manse for cold supper after evening service, and they had a long talk about hell all through the meal and upstairs in the sitting-room afterwards.

But somehow Spillikins could get no further with it.