We all felt that we were terribly disgraced ; but we could do nothing . Peg was enjoying herself hugely , beyond all doubt . From where she sat she could see the whole church , including pulpit and gallery , and her black eyes darted over it with restless glances . `` Bless me , there 's Sam Kinnaird , '' she exclaimed , still aloud . `` He 's the man that dunned Jacob Marr for four cents on the church steps one Sunday . I heard him . ' I think , Jacob , you owe me four cents on that cow you bought last fall . Rec ` llect you could n't make the change ? ' Well , you know , ` twould a-made a cat laugh . The Kinnairds were all mighty close , I can tell you . That 's how they got rich . '' What Sam Kinnaird felt or thought during this speech , which everyone in the church must have heard , I know not . Gossip had it that he changed colour . We wretched occupants of the King pew were concerned only with our own outraged feelings . `` And there 's Melita Ross , '' went on Peg . `` She 's got the same bonnet on she had last time I was in Carlisle church six years ago . Some folks has the knack of making things last . But look at the style Mrs. Elmer Brewer wears , will yez ? Yez would n't think her mother died in the poor-house , would yez , now ? '' Poor Mrs. Brewer !
From the tip of her smart kid shoes to the dainty cluster XXXXX ostrich tips in her bonnet -- she was most immaculately and handsomely arrayed ; but I venture to think she could have taken small pleasure in her fashionable attire that evening .
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