Theron had his creditors seated in serried rows before him, Sunday after Sunday.

Alice had her critics consolidated among those whom it was her chief duty to visit and profess friendship for.

These situations now began, by regular gradations, to unfold their terrors.

At the first intimation of discontent, the Wares made what seemed to them a sweeping reduction in expenditure.

When they heard that Brother Potter had spoken of them as "poor pay," they dismissed their hired girl.