"How did you like my sermon this morning, sister-in-law?" he frankly inquired.
"It was the best—of its kind—I ever heard," responded Margaret, looking at him without blinking.
"Thank you," he bowed. "I'm sure you are perfectly sincere, too, in your complimentary opinion."
"Perfectly sincere," said Margaret.
"In what church were you raised?"
"My family has a perpetual life ownership of a pew in the oldest Episcopal Church in Charleston, but I must admit that it isn't often occupied."
"You are a Christian, I trust?" said Hiram gravely.
Margaret did not think a reply necessary, or perhaps advisable. So she made none.
"Are you a Christian, sister-in-law?" Hiram solemnly repeated.
"I'm a Democrat, a Suffragist, a Southerner—I don't know what all!" said Margaret flippantly.