What DID he know of the great sorrows of life?
The Sunday dinners with the Daniels family were almost regular weekly functions now.

He dodged them when he could, but he could not do so often without telling an absolute lie, and this he would not do.

And, regularly, when the solemn meal was eaten, Captain Elkanah went upstairs for his nap and the Reverend John was left alone with Annabel.

Miss Daniels did her best to be entertaining, was, in fact, embarrassingly confidential and cordial.

It was hard work to get away, and yet, somehow or other, at the stroke of four, the minister always said good-by and took his departure.
"What is your hurry, Mr.Ellery ?" begged Annabel on one occasion when the reading of Moore's poems had been interrupted in the middle by the guest's sudden rising and reaching for his hat.