"You overrate the solemnity of the moment.

I must earnestly ask you all to return with me to the places whence--labouring under an extraordinary error--we came to-night.

I see that Mrs.Parachute trusts me, and is prepared to lead her little flock to rest again.

You, madam----" "Where Mrs.Parachute leads, far be it from me to seem behindhand," said the other, much ruffled, as she gathered her sheet about her.

By the way she said it, one saw that she and Mrs.Parachute did not call.