But alas! she was confronted by a huge dog, and just escaped with whole skin though capeless jacket.

We may be sure there was much talk, that night, at the home fireside, and the good Baptist wife declared that no child of hers should attend meeting again till made a member.

Thereafter, by request of her father, Susan became a member of the Quaker church.
Later, definite convictions took root in Miss Anthony's heart.

Hers is, indeed, a sincerely religious nature.

To be a simple, earnest Quaker was the aspiration of her girlhood; but she shrank from adopting the formal language and plain dress.