She felt herself to be better than her husband, and she
asked him if he could not arrange in future that his political
meetings might not interfere with his religious duties.
"Your absence, too, was noticed, and Mrs. Carver asked me how it was
that Mr. Coleman could let me go home alone. She offered to tell Mr.
Carver to come home with me; but I refused."
Delightfully generous of Mrs. Carver! That was the sort of kindness
for which she and many of her Pike Street friends were so
distinguished; and Mrs. Coleman not only felt it deeply, but was glad
of the opportunity of letting Mr. Coleman know how good the Carvers
were.
It was late, but Mrs. Coleman produced the Bible. Zachariah opened
it rather mechanically. They were going regularly through it at
family worship, and had got into Numbers. The portion for that
evening was part of the 26th chapter: "And these are they that were
numbered of the Levites after their families: of Gershon, the family
of the Gershonites: of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites: of
Merari, the family of the Merarites," &c., &c. Zachariah, having
read about a dozen verses, knelt down and prayed; but, alas, even in
his prayer he saw Pauline's red stockings.
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