And when Finney was fetched, Finney he said 'twas 'conviction.' I don't know what the man was convicted of, but 'twas 'conviction' Finney called it.

He didn't say nothing about being possessed with devils." The third speaker was a small fat man.

His face was smooth and had the peculiar boylike appearance that chubbiness gives even to the middle-aged; he had bright black eyes, and before he spoke he glanced at Susannah critically.
"When they're taken that way under Finney," he said, as if meditating, "'conviction' commonly means conviction of sins--their own sins, ye know, not other folk's; and when they git up, if they've taken anything wrongfully they hev to restore it fourfold afore the conviction will leave off a-worrittin' them.

I don't know how 'tis among the Mormons." The last words were said in an undertone and he had dropped his eyes.

It would have required a brave man to treat Susannah to open sarcasm.
She stood looking from one to the other.