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She saw, however, that he was passing through some mental crisis which was a dangerous struggle. He was restless and often away from Willowfield for two or three days at a time. "To provide the place with orthodox doctrine once a week is more than he can bear, and to be bored to extinction into the bargain makes him feel morbid," she said to herself.
She had married her six daughters in a manner at once creditable to herself, themselves, and Willowfield. Five of them had been rather ordinary, depressed-looking girls, who, perhaps, were not sorry to obtain their freedom. The sixth had narrowly escaped being dowered with all the charms said to have adorned Mrs. Stornaway's own youth.
It was certainly true that among the Stornaways, the Downings, the Burtons, and the Larkins, the prevailing tone was feminine; and as the Stornaways, the Downings, the Burtons, and the Larkins comprised Willowfield society, and without its society Willowfield lost its significance, the observing male visitor may not have been far wrong.
Its occasionally resentful respect for Willowfield was enormous. It did not behold it as a simple provincial town, whose business establishments were primitive, and whose frame houses, even when surrounded by square gardens with flower-beds adorning them, were merely comfortable middle-class abodes of domesticity.
She held out her hand in her pretty, affectionate way, but she was actually a little out of breath. "I'm sorry I came on you so sudden," Susan said, "I startled you." "Yes," she answered, "I was I was thinking of things that seem so far off. When I'm in Willowfield it seems as if as if they can't be true. Does anything ever seem like that to you, Susan?" "Yes," said Susan.
There was society in Willowfield, society which had taken up its abiding-place in three or four streets and confined itself to developing its importance in half a dozen families old families.
Stornaway was to give an evening party which was to combine congratulatory welcome with a touch of condolence for the past and assurance for the future. "We must let him see," said Mrs. Stornaway, "that Willowfield has its attractions." Its attractions did not present themselves as vividly to John Baird as might have been hoped, when he descended from the train at the depot.
The church-going element, with the Nottingham lace curtains in its parlour windows, would have been shocked, but that it was admitted that "the Latimers has always been a well-thought-of family, an' all of 'em is members in good standin'. They're greatly respected in Willowfield; even the old fam'lies speak to 'em when they meet 'em in the street or at Church.
We shall be friends if he will allow it." He spoke with so much heat and impatience that Mrs. Stornaway listened with a discomfited stare. "But nobody knows anything about them," she said. "They're quite ordinary people. They live in Bank Street." "That may settle the matter for Willowfield," said Baird, "but it does not settle it for me.
When, in accordance with Baird's instructions, Susan Chapman took the note to Miss Starkweather, she walked through the tree-shaded streets, feeling as if she had suddenly found herself in a foreign country. To the inhabitants of Janway's Mills, certain parts of Willowfield stood for wealth, luxury, and decorous splendour. The Mills, which lived within itself, was easily impressed.
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