'I feel I'm getting very serious and wise, listening to such talk.

Now we shall hear, I suppose, what you mean by your "local preacher" ?' Annabel brought a shawl and placed it carefully about the girl's shoulders.

Then she said to her father: 'Let me sit next to Paula, please.' The change of seats was effected.

Annabel secretly took one of her cousin's hands and held it.

Paula seemed to regard a distant object in the garden.
There was silence for a few moments.