"She'd better have gone with him openly from the baptising.

I never thought then that it was love-making she was after." Deep scorn was here expressed.

"Religion! 'Twasn't much religion she had in her mind.

And we treated her real kindly, Ephraim, thinking 'twas the hold of delusion they had upon her.

'Twould be very small use to bring her back even if you or your father could have found out which way they'd gone.