"Well, tell," said Charity. "You haven't told yet, only what the other church is going to do."
"Well, we thought the only way was for us to do somethin' too."
"Only not another tree," said Lois. "Not that, for pity's sake."
"Why not?" asked the little minister's wife, with an air of being somewhat taken aback. "Why haven't we as good a right to have a tree as they have?"
"Right, if you like," said Lois; "but right isn't all."
"Go on, and let's hear your wisdom, Lois," said her aunt. "I s'pose you'll say first, we can't do it."
"We can do it, perhaps," said Lois; "but, aunt Anne, it would make bad feeling."
"That's not our look-out," rejoined Mrs. Marx. "We haven't any bad feeling."
"No, not in the least," added Mrs. Seelye. "We only want to give our children as good a time as the others have. That's right."
"'Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory,'" Mrs. Armadale's voice was here heard to say.