“I don't like it,” she said.
“I know you don't. But you can say that it wasn't Putney who hoaxed Mrs. Munger, but Dr. Morrell.”
“Oh, you didn't either of you hoax her.”
“Well, then, there's no harm done.”
“I'm not so sure.”
“And you won't give me any coffee?”
“Oh yes, I'll give you some coffee,” said Annie, with a sigh of baffled scrupulosity that made them both laugh.
He broke out again after he had begun to drink his coffee.
“Well?” she demanded, from her own lapse into silence.
“Oh, nothing! Only Putney. He wants Brother Peck, as he calls him, to unite all the religious elements of Hatboro' in a church of his own, and send out missionaries to the heathen of South Hatboro' to preach a practical Christianity. He makes South Hatboro' stand for all that's worldly and depraved.”