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Ruth and Marion exchanged comic glances when they discovered the "heathen" of the afternoon to be Socrates. And Marion presently whispered that she was evidently to play the character of the old fellow's wife, and Eurie whispered to them both: "Now I want to know if that horrid Zantippe was Socrates' wife! Upon my word I never knew it before.
Eurie turned great gray astonished eyes on her friend, and said in a firm quiet voice: "I have. I settled that matter on Saturday. Have you?" And then those two girls, each with the wonderful surprise ringing music in her heart, were willing to have that meeting over. It was almost over. Dr. Deems sat down amid the hush of hearts, and all the people seemed to feel that no more words were needed.
"Girls!" said Eurie, as she munched a doughnut, which she had brought from the lunch-table with her, and lounged on a camp-chair, waiting for the afternoon service, "do you know that Flossy taught a class in Sunday-school this morning?" "Taught a class!" repeated both Marion and Ruth in one voice, and with about equal degrees of amazement. "She did, as true as the world.
She had taken no part in the war of words that had been passing between Marion and Eurie, but she had heard. And like almost everything else that she heard during these days, it had awakened a new thought and desire. Flossy was growing amazed at herself.
But she reflected that she had never yet found a way to work which she did like; so she was silent. Flossy, according to her usual custom, persistently followed up the new idea. "Let us try it," she said. "Suppose we pledge ourselves each to bring another to the meeting next week." "If we can," Marion said, significantly. "Well, of course, some of us can," Eurie answered.
"They have been shamefully left in the lurch; they were going to have this affair a demoralizing dissipation from first to last, unworthy of the spirit of Chautauqua. And if more solemn, or more searching, or more effective preaching could be crowded into an afternoon than has been done here, I should like to be shown how. What do you think of your choice of entertainments, Eurie?
What the fool said in his heart they proclaimed on the house-top!" Eurie looked over at her, smiling and mischievous, and said in anything but a softly whisper, "That means you, my dear." But Marion did not hear her; she was absorbed in the intense scathing sentences that followed. Of one thing she presently felt assured, that whoever was right or whoever was wrong in this matter, Dr.
"Why not?" she asked, briefly and earnestly, as one eager to learn. "It is on Nell's account," Eurie said, still speaking very gravely. "Nell has but one fault, and that is card-playing; he is just passionately fond of it; he is tempted everywhere. Father says Grandfather Mitchell was just so, and Nell inherits the taste. It is a great temptation to him, and we do not like to foster it at home."
"Since yesterday," Marion said, blushing and laughing. "Eurie, you would do for a cross-questioner." "And I have been on this side since Saturday," Eurie answered, significantly. "A great many things can happen in a week." At this point, Ruth turned and came towards them. She looked quiet and grave. "It is a year, isn't it? since we stood here together for the first time," she said.
"Gone: went this morning." "Where is the Miller party?" "Oh, they went some time ago." "When did the president leave?" "It's all about 'go," Eurie said: "Look! How they are crowding down to the boat; and only a stray one now and then coming up from there. Who would have supposed it could make us feel so forlorn? I am glad we are not to be at the morning meeting.
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