"I liked the way it ended better than anything else," said the president.
"I knew you would," said the captain; "and if they spring a reconsideration on you next Sunday, won't you be disgusted!"
Mr. Buffle had approached the couple as they conversed, and said:
"Gentlemen, what do you think of yesterday's exercises?"
"Both dissatisfied," promptly replied the captain. "Lottson don't like the way they began, and I'm sorry that they ended when they did."
"I'm counting noses to see if we can't secure a reconsideration," said Mr. Buffle. "I don't like the way in which the main question was dodged, and I want to hear more of it."
"Then you'd better go over to the Unitarian Church," said President Lottson. "They'll talk morality to you there to your heart's content."
"They will in our church, too," replied Mr. Buffle, "unless prevented by trickery. One would suppose that morality was something to be afraid of by the way people dodge talking about it."
Mr. Lottson assumed a very high-toned air, and replied:
"It isn't that morality is feared, but that when men fall to talking about it they forget that there is anything higher."