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Updated: June 11, 2025
"They don't go to communion, my son nor his wife; they don't ask me to." "But they want you to; I know they want you to before you die," persuaded Marjorie. "You are so old now." "Yes, I'm old. And you shall read to me out of the Testament before you go. Hepsie reads to me, but she gets to crying before she's half through; she can't find 'peace, she says."
Elizabeth listened with some alarm to the proposition of Mrs. Hunter taking the house into her own hands, but she was touched by the real sympathy and concern evident. "It's good of you, mother. You'll have to be careful about Hepsie, though. You must not call her 'the girl' where she hears you.
One particularly hot day in June John unloaded on the kitchen table an armful of groceries he had just brought from town, remarking as he did so: "I brought home some dried blackberries for pies, Elizabeth." Hepsie Brown, the lately acquired hired girl, stood at Elizabeth's elbow, and began to put the parcels away in the cupboard.
Scandal would be hard to face with no denial possible. Doctor Morgan had known it all and still trusted her; likewise Luther; but Hepsie, and Jake, and Sadie? Besides, Jack would have to know, and would suffer for things of which he was innocent! The girl wrestled with the subject till midnight, and long after.
In her surprised consideration of what Hepsie would think if she should hear Hugh pass her door at that hour, she got the first burst of light on the subject.
As he remarked, it would take no more time to drive over to his work than to cook his own breakfast in the morning. Hepsie was at this time Elizabeth's principal defender.
Hepsie knew that first reports went farthest with country folk, and Luther, who understood better than any one else why the money had been left to Elizabeth, was inwardly amused at Sadie's explanations afterward. "You know, Luther," Sadie had said on the way home that day, "Mr.
"Well, she's had a shock of some kind, and if you don't look out She'll be down on our hands too. You'd better get a girl or let your mother do the work for a couple of weeks," Doctor Morgan advised. And John Hunter had looked faithfully for some one to take his wife's place in the kitchen and had found what she had told him when Hepsie left to be true.
"Never mind, Elizabeth," Hugh said when he saw her shuffling the papers about in search of the bottle. "Jack came in and I had Hepsie give it to me. I've decided that it isn't a good plan to have it there, and I'll keep it under my pillow hereafter." "I I went out with Luther, Hugh, and I didn't realize that I was gone so long. You've missed two doses!"
A sly joke among the hired men while discussing their position in the house of "the grass-widder" drove Hepsie beside herself and made her even more ready than she had been at first to serve the interests of one who was to have no easy time among her jealous neighbours.
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