But she was still as fully determined as ever that she would not wear those abominable stockings to church . CHAPTER XXV . ANOTHER SCANDAL AND ANOTHER `` EXPLANATION '' Faith went early to Sunday School and was seated in the corner of her class pew before any one came . Therefore , the dreadful truth did not burst upon any one until Faith left the class pew near the door to walk up to the manse pew after Sunday School . The church was already half filled and all who were sitting near the aisle saw that the minister 's daughter had boots on but no stockings ! Faith 's new brown dress , which Aunt Martha had made from an ancient pattern , was absurdly long for her , but even so it did not meet her boot-tops . Two good inches of bare white leg showed plainly . Faith and Carl sat alone in the manse pew . Jerry had gone into the gallery to sit with a chum and the Blythe girls had taken Una with them . The Meredith children were given to `` sitting all over the church '' in this fashion and a great many people thought it very improper . The gallery especially , where irresponsible lads congregated and were known to whisper and suspected of chewing tobacco during service , was no place , for a son of the manse . But Jerry hated the manse pew at the very top of the church , under the eyes of Elder Clow and his family . He escaped from it whenever he could . Carl , absorbed in watching a spider spinning its web at the window , did not notice Faith 's legs . She walked home with her father after church and he never noticed them . She got on the hated striped stockings before Jerry and Una arrived , so that for the time being none of the occupants of the manse knew what she had done . But nobody else in Glen St. Mary was ignorant of it . The few who had not seen soon heard . Nothing else was talked of on the way home from church . Mrs. Alec Davis said it was only what she expected , and the next thing you would see some of those young ones coming to church with no clothes on at all .
The president of the Ladies ' Aid decided that she would bring the matter up at the next Aid meeting , and suggest that they wait XXXXX a body on the minister and protest .
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