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She was always cheered by Mrs. Weatherstone's letters; and Mrs. Porne came to see her, and to compare notes over their friend's success. For Mrs. Weatherstone had been presented at Court at more than one court, in fact; and Mrs. Weatherstone had been proposed to by a Duke and had refused him! Orchardina well-nigh swooned when this was known.
Why she managed her son till he ran away from her and after he got so rich and imported her from Philadelphia to rule over Orchardina in general and his household in particular, she managed that poor little first wife of his into her grave, and that wretched boy he's the only person that manages her! She's utterly spoiled him that was his father's constant grief.
Domestic bliss increased in Orchardina, and the doctors were more rigidly confined to the patronage of tourists. Ross Warden did his best. Under the merciless friendliness of Mr. Thaddler he had been brought to see that Diantha had a right to do this if she would, and that he had no right to prevent her; but he did not like it any the better.
Not only so, but she supplied the Orchardina library with a special bibliography on the subject, and induced the new Woman's Club to take up a course of reading in it, so that there gradually filtered into the Orchardina mind a faint perception that this was not the freak of an eccentric individual, but part of an inevitable business development, going on in various ways in many nations.
Marital difficulties in bulk were beyond Diantha's comprehension, and she dropped the subject. Union House opened in the autumn. The vanished pepper trees were dim with dust in Orchardina streets as the long rainless summer drew to a close; but the social atmosphere fairly sparkled with new interest.
Others, in stern dignity, upheld the shaken standards of Home and Culture; while the most conspicuous outcome of it all was the immediate formation of the New Woman's Club of Orchardina. Behind the straight purple backs and smooth purple legs on the box before them, Madam Weatherstone and Mrs. Weatherstone rolled home silently, a silence of thunderous portent.
Ellen A. Dankshire, President of the Orchardina Home and Culture Club, took up the matter seriously. "Now Mrs. Porne," said she, settling herself vigorously into a comfortable chair, "I just want to talk the matter over with you, with a view to the club. We do not know how long this will last " "Don't speak of it!" said Mrs. Porne. " and it behooves us to study the facts while we have them."
And she saw, through the floors and walls and the darkness, the dust in the little shaded parlor two days' dust at least, and Orchardina is very dusty! dust in the dining-room gathered since yesterday the dust in the kitchen she would not count time there, and the dust here she counted it inexorably the dust of eight days in her great, light workroom upstairs.
Orchardina basked and prospered; its citizens found their homes happier and less expensive than ever before, and its citizenesses began to wake up and to do things worth while. Two years, and there was a small Ross Warden born. She loved it, nursed it, and ran her business at long range for some six months.
A score of years after there were to be found in Orchardina folk who still whispered about dark allegations concerning Union House; and the papers had done some pretty serious damage; but the fame of good food, good service, cheapness and efficiency made steady headway. In view of the increase and of the plans still working in her mind, Diantha made certain propositions to Mr.
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