She did not shun her parents, and even talked with them in a listless way; solitude would have been irksome to her just now.

For once she felt glad of her mother's way of spending Sunday; to sit inactive was all that she desired.

It was understood that her head distressed her.
In the afternoon, and again in the evening, the single bell of the chapel clanged for worshippers.

Mrs.Hood was not in the habit of attending service more than once in the day; she sat on her uneasy chair, at times appearing to read, more often gazing out of the windows.
The road had more traffic than on week-days, for it was the recreation of a certain class of Dunfieldians to drive out in parties to the Heath, either hiring a vehicle or using their own trade-carts.

It would have been a consolation to observe that in the latter case the quadruped employed benefited by its owner's regard for his own interests; possibly an acute spectator might have discerned gradations of inhumanity.