She was closeted with Miriam for a long time, then saw Eleanor.

Spence purposely kept away from home.
Dante lay unread, as well as the other books which Eleanor placed insidiously in her cousin's room.

Letters lay unanswered--among them several relating to the proposed new chapel at Bartles.

How did Miriam employ herself during the hours that she spent alone?
Not seldom, in looking back upon her childhood and maidenhood.
Imagine a very ugly cubical brick house of two stories, in a suburb of Manchester.

It stands a few yards back from the road.