That ordeal was over, Miss Benson thought, and in the thought rejoiced.
"After dinner, you must go and lie down, my dear," said she, untying Ruth's bonnet-strings, and kissing her.

"Sally goes to church again, but you won't mind staying alone in the house.

I am sorry we have so many people to dinner, but my brother will always have enough on Sundays for any old or weak people, who may have come from a distance, to stay and dine with us; and to-day they all seem to have come, because it is his first Sabbath at home." In this way Ruth's first Sabbath passed over..