"Yes."
"You went away with him; I saw you through my window."
"I did."
"Why did he come?"
"Don't ask me about that man. He is one whom I would to God I had never known."
"Don't speak so of him, Charles."
"Cora, he is a bad man."
"He is the pastor."
"For all that, he is cruel and bloodthirsty. I know it. I feel it."
Cora shuddered and made a feeble effort to defend the pastor who had persecuted her; but Charles, who had the retaliating spirit of humanity in his soul, declared he was a pious fraud and a disgrace to his cloth.