“Certainly I should,” she replied. “I learned it perfectly.”
So she rose and stood beside her chair, with one hand resting on its carved back, and recited with an earnestness caught in part from the way which Tom had given her the words—
“He prayeth best who loveth best,
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.”
There was a low laugh of admiration went all around the room when she finished, and Tom with a pleased smile said,
“That was very nicely done.”
Then, with the usual prayer for help and guidance, he dismissed them, and then offered to take Miss Lillie’s chair up to the house for her.
“No,” she replied, carelessly, “let it stand; I will send Jack for it.”