Mrs.Chapman assured him that the best in the house had been prepared for him, and that she had got the town in a state of great anxiety to see him.

To tell the truth, this busy, bustling woman had been blowing a noisy trumpet for him in advance, and enlisting a large amount of female sympathy by stating that he was preeminent as an advocate of woman's rights in all things.
Of course the Reverend Warren Holbrook's arrival soon got noised over Nyack, and the female mind was in a state of great agitation.

Before bed-time a number of curious and somewhat aged women dropped in to pay their respects to the gentleman, and see for themselves what this man of great natural gifts, who was to reform all Nyack and the world generally, was like.
There was one member of the Chapman family, however, not pleased with the way things were going, and that was Mattie.

When the older Chapmans had taken their guest into the house, she embraced the opportunity to have a talk with Tite, and reproached him for what she had seen him do.
"Now, Tite," said she, looking earnestly into his face, "if you have any respect for me, never walk behind a man, carrying his carpet-bag--never! And such a looking man as that! You are as good as he, or anybody else, and if you don't think yourself so, other people wont think so for you.
Never think you are not as good as somebody.

Don't act as a help for anybody, for if you do you will be set down for nobody all your life." At first Tite hardly knew what to say in reply.