But, far's the minister's concerned, didn't I hear of your Uncle Eben sayin' in prayer meetin' only a fortni't or so ago that all hands who wa'n't Come-Outers were own children to Satan?
Mr.Ellery must take after his father some.
Surprisin', ain't it, what a family the old critter's got." The girl laughed again.

For one brought up, since her seventh year, in the strictest of Come-Outer families, she laughed a good deal.

Many Come-Outers considered it wicked to laugh.

Yet Grace did it, and hers was a laugh pleasant to hear and distinctly pleasant to see.

It made her prettier than ever, a fact which, if she was aware of it, should have been an additional preventive, for to be pretty smacks of vanity.
Perhaps she wasn't aware of it.
"What do you think Uncle Eben would say if he heard that ?" she asked.
"Say I took after my father, too, I presume likely.