I am sure--" Her conviction concerning the naturalness of Smith's conduct and the Quaker's sincerity had arisen in the presence of each, and was not now to be ascribed to any particular word or action which she could remember and repeat.
"Oh, he was sorry your frock was splashed, was he?
And the other fellow they call Halsey, was he concerned about that too ?" "Who told you that his name was Halsey ?" The interest of her tone was unmistakable.
"That is his name, and he must be a degraded fellow to take up with Smith." She saw that Ephraim's clothes were very wet; he must have walked far.
She attributed his exhausted look entirely to fatigue, and his ill-temper to the same cause.

"Mr.Halsey seemed quite good and in earnest, like the people that come to see Mr.Finney when he stays here, asking about saving their souls, as if their souls were something quite different from the other part of them; and, Ephraim, I have often wanted to ask you, but I didn't like to.

You don't believe what aunt and uncle do, do you?
Aunt talks as if you didn't believe.

Do you think"-- her voice trembled--"do you think that I ought to think about my soul--that way ?" Ephraim never perceived the nature of her difficulty.

He thought she questioned the earnestness of life.