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Louisa and I had brought a chicken; we had one of ours killed, and I had roasted it the day before. I remarked to Mrs. Ketchum that we should have an unusually nice dinner; and so we should have had if it had not been for Mrs. H. Boardman Jameson. The Jamesons came driving into the grove in the Liscom carryall and their buggy. Mr.
I have other views for her; it is impossible; it must be understood at once that I will not have it." Mrs. Jameson was still talking, and Louisa and I listening with more of dismay than sympathy, when who should walk in but Caroline Liscom herself. She did not knock she never does; she opened the door with no warning whatsoever, and stood there. Louisa turned pale, and I know I must have.
She and Amelia, from the way they faced at their sitting-room windows, had seen the Grover stage-coach stop at Mrs. Liscom's, and had run out to see the boarders alight. Mrs. Jones said there were five of them the mother, grandmother, two daughters, and a son. I said that I did not know Mrs. Liscom was going to take boarders; I was very much surprised.
Liscom being such a character has always more or less authority in her bearing, but that day she displayed a real majesty which I had never seen in her before. She stood there a second, then she turned and made a backward and forward motion of her arm as if she were sweeping, and directly red-shirted firemen and boys began to fly out of the house as if impelled by it.
As for Caroline Liscom, her mouth is always closed upon her own affairs until they have become matters of history. She never said a word to me about the Jamesons until they had ceased to be her boarders, which was during the first week in August. My sister-in-law, Louisa Field, came home one afternoon with the news. She had been over to Mrs.
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