"I just want to dream and dream all day. Isn't it dreadfully delightful?"
"Yes—we like it up here," he replied, the least bit stiffly.
"Alfred, how did you ever happen to come so far?"
"So far?"
"Yes; aren't there any resorts in Ohio?"
"Well, you see it was, to begin with, on account of the Summer Assembly...."
She didn't fully fathom it until he had explained: "We're a sort of religious colony here on the Point."
"Oh-h-h!" cried the lady then, with the air of one who is vastly—perhaps a little satirically—enlightened. "I understand now what Anna meant yesterday when she spoke about 'visiting clergymen.' You hold meetings, I presume, and then have some refreshments at the end?"
"No refreshments," he replied, in a rather dry tone, reproving her at the same time, with an almost sharp glance.
"Well," she agreed, with a touch of apology, "I suppose you wouldn't. I was thinking of some of our Tahulamaji pow-wows."