“Yes, I must be cheerful.”
“How do you endure it? Yet it fascinates me, this life—in touch with drama more thrilling than poets dream. It seems to me I’m just beginning to live. I am very grateful to you.”
He looked into her face, smiling.
“The gratitude is on my side. You are going to be more popular than the pastor.”
“I’m sure you will not be jealous.”
“Hardly, as long as I hear the extravagant things you are telling your girls about loyalty to the leader.”
She blushed and turned her violet eyes frankly on him.
“I believe in loyalty.”
He answered with a look of gratitude.
“We must go first to that store for Ludlow. He’s the best deacon in the church, a staunch friend, a loyal, tireless worker.”