If I had known that you were about, I would have sent: but hearing that you were gone home, I thought you would not be offended, if I gave thanks for them myself.
They are my own, sir, as it were--" "Oh, Miss Harvey, do not talk so! While you can pray as you were praying then, he who would silence you might be silencing unawares the Lord himself!" She made no answer, though the change in Frank's tone moved her; and when he told her his errand, that thought also passed from her mind.
At last, "Happy, happy man!" she said calmly; and putting on her bonnet, followed Frank out of the house.
"Miss Harvey," said Frank, as they hurried up the street, "I must say one word to you, before we take that Sacrament together." "Sir ?" "It is well to confess all sins before the Eucharist, and I will confess mine.

I have been unjust to you.

I know that you hate to be praised; so I will not tell you what has altered my opinion.

But Heaven forbid that I should ever do so base a thing, as to take the school away from one who is far more fit to rule in it than ever I shall be!" Grace burst into tears.
"Thank God! And I thank you, sir! Oh, there's never a storm but what some gleam breaks through it! And now, sir, I would not have told you it before, lest you should fancy that I changed for the sake of gain-- though, perhaps, that is pride, as too much else has been.

But you will never hear of me inside either of those chapels again." "What has altered your opinion of them, then ?" "It would take long to tell, sir: but what happened this morning filled the cup.