I--" "Oh, but it IS so funny.

You don't understand.

What do you think your congregation would say if they knew you had been to a Come-Outers' meeting and then insisted on seeing a Come-Outer girl home ?" John Ellery swallowed hard.

A vision of Captain Elkanah Daniels and the stately Miss Annabel rose before his mind's eye.

He hadn't thought of his congregation in connection with this impromptu rescue of a damsel in distress.
"Ha, ha!" he laughed mournfully.