Finally the committee came again and said: "You have taught us that we must not drink or go about places where liquor is sold.

The only other dancing-hall in town is in a disreputable tavern, and if we can not come here we shall be obliged to go there." So Mr.Anthony called a council of his wife and elder daughters.

The mother, remembering her own youth and also having a tender solicitude for the moral welfare of the young people, advised that they should have the hall.

Mr.Anthony at last agreed on condition that his own daughters should not dance.

So they came, and Susan, Guelma and Hannah sat against the wall and watched, longing to join them but never doing it.