"Is she a--Come-Outer ?" Mrs.Coffin nodded.
"Yes," she said.

"She's one.

Couldn't be anything else and live with her Uncle Eben, as she calls him." The minister experienced a curious feeling of disappointment and chagrin.

This young person, already predisposed to regard a clergyman of his denomination with disapproval, had seen him for the first time under most humiliating circumstances.

And he should never have the opportunity to regain her favor, or his own self-respect, by his efforts in the pulpit.