The unwisdom of touching an Ark of the Covenant, under any circumstances, could not have been more clearly brought home to them.

They liked also to hear of the instruments played upon before the Lord by those that went ahead of the Ark; harps, psalteries, and timbrels; cornets, cymbals, and instruments made of fir-wood.
Then there was David, who danced at the head of the procession "girded with a linen ephod," which, somehow, sounded insufficient; and indeed, it appeared that Clytie was inclined to side wholly with Michal, David's wife, who looked through a window and despised him when she saw him "leaping and dancing before the Lord," uncovered save for the presumably inadequate ephod of linen.

She, Clytie, thought it not well that a man of David's years and honour should "make himself ridiculous that way." So it was early in this new life that the little boys came to walk as it behooves those to walk who shall taste death.

And to the littler boy, prone to establish relations and likenesses among his mental images, the big house itself would at times be more than itself to him.

There was the Front Room.