You'll find there won't be such an attendance in the afternoon.

It is ways and means, then, you know.

Yes, seems as if sermons on hell made them shiver, and they enjoyed it.

I've sometimes thought--I don't know as I'm right--they get the same kind of pleasure out of it that worldly people do out of a play.

Not that I know much about such things, I'm sure." Helen smiled, which rather shocked Mrs.Grier; but though the guest scarcely listened, the little sharp babble of talk was kept up, until they went down to dinner.
There had been no chance for the husband and wife to speak to each other.
John looked at Helen steadily a moment, but her eyes veiled any thought.
In the midst of Mrs.Grier's chatter, she had gone into the solitude of her own heart, and slowly and silently light was beginning to shine into the mysterious darkness of the last few days.