text:  Besides he was weary and bade me read to him and I sat by his side and read to him the Bible until in the midst of an exhortation to watch and pray I heard a sound that he himself might have called an uplifting of the horn of Sion and behold he was snoring in his chair; and then in the naughtiness of my heart I stole from his presence to come to my room--and--and--tend my flowers " she added with an arch smile