Not being able to get Dorian talking about the case, the good people of Greenstreet soon exhausted their own knowledge of the matter, so in a short time, the gossip resumed its every-day trend.
Hardly a day passed without Dorian spending some time with Carlia.

She would not go to Sunday School or to Mutual, and it was some time before he could convince her that it was a matter of wisdom as well as of right that she should attend some of the public ward meetings.

Frequently, he took his book to the Duke home and read aloud to Carlia.

This she enjoyed very much.

Sometimes the book was a first class novel, but oftener it was a scientific text or a religions treatise.