'Of course,' she said promptly, and they passed into church and entered a pew together.
All through the service she noticed that he watched her closely, and copied her every movement. The rest of the congregation stared at the pew in a manner that made her feel very uncomfortable, and seemed greatly in excess of the occasion.
As they were going out together, she said to him,—
'How is it I've never seen you in church before?'
'Don't you know I'm a Roman?' he replied wonderingly.
Then the demeanor of her neighbors was made plain to her, and she blushed to think of what she had done.
'No, I didn't know; why didn't you tell me?' she stammered. 'Why did you come in if you didn't like it?'
'But I did like it,' he replied in a vibrant voice. 'I'd do more than that to sit along of you. Didn't you save my life last night?'
Maggie blushed and kept silence, but a gentle glow of satisfaction thrilled through her.
Presently they came to the cross roads, one arm of which led homeward, the other to the shore.