Our Neighbors want to talk
with you now.
FIRST NEIGHBOR. Oh, no! We would rather hear you tell your Grandmother
about the sermon and the music.
GRANDMOTHER. What hymns did they sing, Karen?
KAREN (_as before_). Hymns? They sang--let me see--they sang--
[_She stops in confusion._]
GRANDMOTHER. Why, Karen! Are you ill?
SECOND NEIGHBOR. No, Grandmother, Karen is not ill. She is ashamed. She was
not thinking of the beautiful music nor of the sermon this morning. Is that
not true, Karen?
KAREN (_ashamed_). Y-e-s--
GRANDMOTHER. What is this?
THIRD NEIGHBOR. Tell your Grandmother what you were thinking about in
church, Karen.
KAREN. I was thinking about--about--my new shoes.
GRANDMOTHER. A great thing to think about in church--a pair of plain black
shoes!
FOURTH NEIGHBOR. She did not wear her black shoes; she wore _red shoes!_
GRANDMOTHER (_gasping_). Red shoes--to church?
FIRST NEIGHBOR (_nodding_). Every one was terribly shocked!
GRANDMOTHER (_still gasping_). Red shoes to church!
SECOND NEIGHBOR. Even the pastor looked at her shoes!
GRANDMOTHER (_indignantly_). Red shoes to church!
THIRD NEIGHBOR. The choir looked! All fixed their eyes on Karen's red
shoes.
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