Then some had napped and some had walked and some had gone to Sunday school.

At night they had had cold suppers, and afterwards some had gone back to church; while others, as in Roger's house in the days when Judith was alive, had gathered around the piano for hymns.

Young men callers, friends of their daughters, had joined in the family singing.

Yes, some of these people had been like that.

To them, a few short years ago, a concert on the Sabbath would have seemed a sacrilege.