"Indeed, we appreciate it," she murmured, "do we not, Miss Utter ?" The little brown nut seemed to crack in a capacious smile.
"Indeed, indeed!" she said fervently, accenting her emphasis by briefly-closed eyes.
"Hymn books.

Now, have we hymn books enough ?" plaintively broke in Mrs.Manners.

"I declare, those new hymn books don't seem to have the spirit of the old ones, no matter what _any one_ says," she informed St.George earnestly as they reached an open door.

In the next moment he stood aside and the Readers' Guild filed past him.

He followed them.