CHAPTER XIX.
THE THUNDER OF THE CAPTAINS Marian had suggested to her mother that they visit Mrs.Owen in town before settling at Waupegan for the summer, and it was Marian's planning that made this excursion synchronize with the state convention.

Mr.
Bassett was not consulted in the matter; in fact, since his wife's return from Connecticut he had been unusually occupied, and almost constantly away from Fraserville.

Mrs.Bassett and her daughter arrived at the capital the day after Mrs.Owen reached home from Wellesley with Sylvia, and the Bassetts listened perforce to their kinswoman's enthusiastic account of the commencement exercises.

Mrs.Owen had, it appeared, looked upon Smith and Mount Holyoke also on this eastward flight, and these inspections, mentioned in the most casual manner, did not contribute to Mrs.Bassett's happiness.
Finding that her father was inaccessible by telephone, Marian summoned Harwood and demanded tickets for the convention; she would make an occasion of it, and Mrs.Owen and Sylvia should go with them.

Mrs.
Bassett and her family had always enjoyed the freedom of Mrs.Owen's house; it was disheartening to find Sylvia established in Delaware Street on like terms of intimacy.