"Cloves is better," suggested Miss Gunn.
Some laughed at this; others looked portentously grave.
"It's just one o' Di's nonsense speeches," said her mother; "what they mean I'm sure I don't know. She reads too many books to be just like other folks."
"But the books were written by other folks, mother."
"La! some sort, child. Not our sort, I guess."
"Hain't Di never learned her catechism?" inquired Mrs. Flandin.
"Is there anything about going to church in it?" asked the girl.
"There's most all sorts o' good things in it," answered vaguely Mrs. Flandin, who was afraid of committing herself. "I thought Di might ha' learned there something about such a thing as we call duty."
"That's so," said Mrs. Mansfield.
"Just what I am asking about," said Di. "That's the thing. Why is it duty, to go to church when one don't want to go?"