Without moving his body he reached forward and with a pencil touched the back of the seat before him.

Instantly Elnora took another step which brought her to a row of vacant front seats.
She heard laughter behind her; the knowledge that she wore the only hat in the room burned her; every matter of moment, and some of none at all, cut and stung.

She had no books.

Where should she go when this was over?
What would she give to be on the trail going home! She was shaking with a nervous chill when the music ceased, and the superintendent arose, and coming down to the front of the flower-decked platform, opened a Bible and began to read.

Elnora did not know what he was reading, and she felt that she did not care.