“I don’t think Mr. Smith would have done, Matthew,” was Anne’s final summing up. “ Mrs. Lynde says his delivery was so poor, but I think his worst fault was just like Mr. Bentley’s⁠—he had no imagination. And Mr. Terry had too much; he let it run away with him just as I did mine in the matter of the Haunted Wood. Besides, Mrs. Lynde says his theology wasn’t sound. Mr. Gresham was a very good man and a very religious man, but he told too many funny stories and made the people laugh in church; he was undignified, and you must have some dignity about a minister, mustn’t you, Matthew? I thought Mr. Marshall was decidedly attractive; but Mrs.