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Updated: September 23, 2025
The thought flashed across her mind, what is she should marry Wollaston at the same time her father married Miss Slome? That would be a happy and romantic solution of the affair. She colored sweetly, and smiled, but the boy scowled at her. "Say?" he said. Maria trembled a little. She was surprised. "What?" she asked.
"If you want to marry Miss Slome, why don't you, instead of my father?" inquired Maria, bluntly, going straight to the point. "I haven't got any money," replied Wollaston, crossly; "all a woman thinks of is money. How'd I buy her dresses?" "I don't believe but your father would be willing for you to live at home with her, and buy her dresses, till you got so you could earn yourself."
She felt so sure that people were observing her, that she blushed and dared not look around. She was, in reality, much observed, and both admired and pitied. People, both privately and outspokenly, did not believe that the step-mother would be, in a way, good to the child by the former marriage. Ida Slome was not exactly a favorite in Edgham.
Her father had too much the air of a gentleman to carry a paper bag. "I do hope your mother will like these peaches," he said. Maria walked along with her father, and she thought with pain and scorn how singular it was for a boy to want to go home with an old woman like Miss Slome, when there were little girls like her. Maria and her father entered the house, which was not far.
"He wants to speak to you," she said, indicating Wollaston with a turn of her hand. Miss Slome looked inquiringly at Wollaston, who stood before her like a culprit, blushing and shuffling, and yet with a sort of doggedness. "Well, what is it, Wollaston?" she asked, patronizingly. "I came back to ask you if you would have me?" said Wollaston, and his voice was hardly audible.
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