After a while she heard her own name, and curiosity began to subside into awe.

After this the preacher brought forward the case of Joseph Smith.
Before the prayer ended Susannah was troubled by so strong a sense of emotion that she desired nothing so much as relief.

It seemed to her that the emotion was not so much in herself as in the others, or like an influence in the room pressing upon them all.

At length a kitten that had been lying by the hearth got up as if disturbed by the same influence, and, walking round the room, rubbed its fur against Ephraim's knee.

She saw the start run through his whole nervous frame.