No doubt the pair had had an interview and all that.
But she believed the minister himself had come to his senses and had dismissed the brazen creature.

She did not blame Mr.Ellery so much.

He was a young man, with a kind heart, and no doubt the "Van Horne person" had worked upon his sympathies and had taken advantage of his inexperience of feminine wiles.
"I think, pa," she said, "that it's our duty, yours and mine, to treat him just as we always have.

He doesn't know that we know, and we will keep the secret.

And, as Christians, we should forget and forgive.