You will have been anxious about this note--expecting it--inquiring for it, you know.

Get your dinner now, then stay in your room so the maid won't see you when the note comes--she will have to ask Nance where you are--" At dinner, which Bernal had presently with Aunt Bell and two empty seats, his companion regaled him with comments upon the development of the religious instinct in mankind, reminding him that should he ever aspire to a cult of his own he would find Boston a more fertile field than New York.
"They're so much broader there, you know," she began.

"Really, they'll believe anything if you manage your effects artistically.

And that is the trouble with you, Bernal.

You appeal too little to the imagination.
You must not only have a novelty to preach nowadays, but you must preach it in a spectacular manner.