And finding herself awkward in the new role, Mrs.Anderson dropped it and resumed her old gait, remarking, as she closed the door, that she was glad to know that Julia was coming to her senses, and "had took the right road." For Mrs.Abigail was more vigorous than grammatical.
Julia did not see anything significant in this remark at first.

But after a while it came to her that Humphreys must have told her mother of something that had passed during the preceding night, something on which this commendation was founded.

Then she fell into the same torpor and was in the same old spider's web, and there was the same spider with the limited smile and the mustache and the watch-seals and the straps! And he was trying to fasten her, and she said "yes." And she could see the little word.

The spider caught it and spun it into a web and fastened her with it.

And she could break all the other webs but those woven out of that one little word from her own lips.