Such visions as Mr.Smith had came but at the beginning to attest his mission and give him confidence." "Tut! I should think he had sufficient of that commodity.

It is I who require the confidence, and have I come too late ?" "I would question, if it did not appear unkind, why you have come at all ?" "Bless you, it's relations, not revelations, that I came after." "I fear that Angel will not be satisfied with that attitude," Susannah sighed.

She supposed that Elvira represented all too well the attitude of educated minds in that far-off world whose existence she tried to forget.
"Therefore," said Elvira, "I will board with the Smiths." Elvira's whim to be received into the prophet's family could not be carried out, but by persistency she succeeded in establishing herself in the household of Hyrum Smith, where she distinguished herself by two peculiarities--a refusal to marry any of the saintly bachelors who were proposed to her, and a perpetual good-natured delight in all that she saw and heard.

She resisted baptism, but to Susannah's surprise, remained on perfectly friendly terms with the leaders of the sect.
The next two years passed quietly in Kirtland.

Susannah, imbued, as indeed were all Smith's friends, with his belief that the peace was but for a time, cherished her husband as though death were near, and grieved him by no outward nonconformity to pious practices.