Afterward she was wont to say that when she was in Elliot she did not go out much, nobody came to the house nor anything, but she went to meeting and she enjoyed that.
It was the evening following that Mrs.Jane Maxwell came.

Mrs.Field, sitting with her guests, felt a strange contraction of her heart when she heard the door open.
"Who's that comin' ?" asked Mrs.Babcock.
"I guess it's old Mr.Maxwell's brother Henry's wife," replied Mrs.
Field.
She arose.

Lois went quickly and softly out of the other door.

She felt sure that exposure was near, and her first impulse was to be out of sound and hearing of it.

She sat there in the dark on the front door-step awhile, then she went into the house.