She considered that it was highly improper for a young man to be so forward and daring; but it was quite in accordance with the spirit of the times, as Pastor Martens had explained on the previous Sunday.
"Ah, Pastor Martens is quite a different man, is he not ?" asked Mrs.
Garman, addressing Madeleine, as Rachel made no reply.
"Yes--oh yes!" answered Madeleine, abstractedly.

She was wondering all the time where Delphin could have come from so suddenly, when he appeared close to her and Fanny in the crowd at the church door He had greeted her in a most friendly way, but when they got to the carriage they found that both he and Fanny had vanished without saying good-bye.
Rachel let her mother talk away, as was her wont.

She was all the time meditating on the importance of the event which had just taken place, and was wondering how Johnsen would come out of it all.

It was quite clear that her mother's was the prevailing opinion, and it was but too probable that with most people the ill feeling would take a still more bitter form.

She could picture him to herself calm and steadfast in the midst of it all.