No doom in the next world could have alarmed him much, unless it had been the prospect of continuing lord and master of Mrs.Abigail.And as for that oppressed woman, she was simply scared.

She was quite unwilling to admit the coming of the world's end so soon.

Having some ugly accounts to settle, she would fain have postponed the payday.

Mrs.Anderson might truly have been called a woman who feared God--she had reason to.
And as for August, he would not have cared much if the world had come to an end, if only he could have secured one glance of recognition from the eyes of Julia.

But Julia dared not look.