All the Christian Endeavorers had been urged to attend.

Elizabeth gave this as an excuse; but the manager quickly swept that away, saying she could go to church any night, but she could not go to this particular play with him always.

The girl eyed him calmly with much the same attitude with which she might have pointed her pistol at his head, and said gravely, "But I do not want to go with you." After that the manager hated her.

He always hated girls who resisted him.
He hated her, and wanted to do her harm.

But he fairly persecuted her to receive his attentions.