How very awkward it was! It was during the opening prayer that they arrived, and they had to stand by the door and be peeped at by irreverent children; then they had to invite themselves to a vacant seat near the door. The superintendent came that way presently, and said: "Good-morning, young ladies; so you have come in to visit our school? Glad to see you; it is a pleasant place, I think you will find." "That is extremely doubtful," Eurie said, in undertone, as he passed on. How the children did stare! "They are certainly unused to visitors," Ruth said, growing uncomfortable under such prolonged gazing. "What is the use of all this, girls? We might better be at home." "If we had grown up here," Eurie said, bravely, "we should probably have our place by this time. It all comes of our graceful lives. But I must say they make it very easy for people to stay away. Why on earth don't they invite us to go into Bible classes? What right have they to take it for granted that we came out of pure curiosity?" The business of the hour went on, and our girls were still left unmolested. As the newness wore somewhat away, the situation began to grow funny. They could see that the pastor and the superintendent were engaged in anxious conversation, to judge by the gravity of their faces; and as their eyes occasionally roved in that direction, it was natural to suppose they were discussing the unexpected visitors. Could they have heard the anxious talk it would have been a solemn comment on their reputations. "That Morris class is vacant again to-day," the superintendent was saying; "I don't know what we are to do with that class; no one is willing to undertake it." The pastor looked toward his own large class waiting for him, and said, with a weary sigh: "I believe I shall have to give up my class to some one and take that. I don't want to; it is a class which requires more nervous energy than I have at command at this hour of the day. But what is to be done with them to-day?" "Would it do to ask one of the young ladies on the visitors' seat?" And then the eyes of the two men turned toward the girls. "They are afraid of us," whispered Eurie, her propensity to see the ludicrous side of things in no whit destroyed by her conversion. "Look at their troubled faces; they think that we are harbingers of mischief. Oh me! What a reputation to have! But I declare it is funny." Whereupon she laughed softly, but unmistakably. It was at this moment that Dr. Dennis' eyes rested on her. "Oh, they are only here for material to make sport of," he said, gloomily; "Miss Erskine might keep the boys quiet for awhile if she chose to do so, I suppose." "Or Miss Wilbur. Some of the boys in that class are in school, in her ward; they say she has grand order." Dr. Dennis' face grew stern.