It is certain that if it had not been a church service, her solo would have been vigorously applauded.

It even seemed to the minister when she sat down that something like an attempted clapping of hands or a striking of feet on the floor swept through the church.

He was startled by it.

As he rose, however, and laid his sermon on the Bible, he said to himself he had been deceived.

Of course it could not occur.