Her father 's face was too much for her . `` What confounded nonsense is this ? '' demanded the elder explosively . Mrs. Knox opened her mellow brown eyes widely , as if in amazement at her husband 's tone . `` I do n't understand you , '' she said . `` Our position is perfectly logical . '' She had borrowed that phrase from Myra Wilson , and it floored the elder . He got up , seized his hat , and strode from the room . That night , at Jacob Wherrison 's store at the Corner , the Putney men talked over the new development . The social was certainly off -- for a time , anyway . `` Best let 'em alone , I say , '' said Wherrison . `` They 're mad at us now and doing this to pay us out . But they 'll cool down later on and we 'll have the social all right . '' `` But if they do n't , '' said Andrew McKittrick gloomily , `` who is going to pay for that carpet ? '' This was an unpleasant question . The others shirked it . `` I was always opposed to this action of the session , '' said Alec Craig . `` It would n't have hurt to have let the woman speak . 'T is n't as if it was a regular sermon . '' `` The session knew best , '' said Andrew sharply .
`` And the minister -- you 're not going XXXXX set your opinion up against his , are you , Craig ? ''
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