But my father's people were always Methodists.

My mother was a Universalist.' Mrs.Burgoyne frowned with perplexity.

'I'm afraid I don't know what that is ?' she said.
'They think everybody will be saved,' said Miss Foster in her shy deep voice.

'They don't despair of anybody.' And suddenly Mrs.Burgoyne saw a very soft and tender expression pass across the girl's grave features, like the rising of an inward light.
'A mystic--and a beauty both ?' she thought to herself, a little scornfully this time.

In all her politeness to the new-comer so far, she had been like a person stealthily searching for something foreseen and desired.