Maybe he thought it would ruin the reputation he'd worked so hard to perfect – the flocks of people who crowded into tents would never believe that a man with healing powers could have a daughter like Hannah.
-- Miriam (chapter 1)

Importance: Miriam is discussing the reason Samuel never tells people about Hannah before the family arrives for the revival service.

His fists on the man's body made the same sound as the punch he landed on the girl's stomach last summer. He had said that was an accident; this was not.”
-- Miriam (chapter 3)

Importance: Miriam sees Samuel beating up a man who questioned Samuel's power to actually heal. She compares that to Samuel striking a very young pregnant girl the previous summer, knowing that he cannot possibly say this event is accidental.

He couldn't be a fraud like the man said – fraud would men that he'd known all along that he hadn't been able to heal. And...
-- Miriam (chapter 3)