And I 'm laughed at if I show my face in any of the other settlements . '' The Sunday School superintendent said the Sunday School was going to wrack and ruin , also the Christian Endeavour . The condition of the church for dust was something scandalous , and strangers were making a mockery of the singing . And the carpet had to be paid for . He supposed they would have to let the women have their own way . The next Sunday evening after service Mr. Sinclair arose hesitatingly . His face was flushed , and Alethea Craig always declared that he looked `` just plain everyday cross . '' He announced briefly that the session after due deliberation had concluded that Mrs. Cotterell might occupy the pulpit on the evening appointed for her address . The women all over the church smiled broadly . Frances Spenslow got up and went to the organ stool . The singing in the last hymn was good and hearty . Going down the steps after dismissal Mrs. Elder Knox caught the secretary of the Church Aid by the arm . `` I guess , '' she whispered anxiously , `` you 'd better call a special meeting of the Aids at my house tomorrow afternoon . If we 're to get that social over before haying begins we 've got to do some smart scurrying . '' The strike in the Putney church was over . The Unhappiness of Miss Farquhar Frances Farquhar was a beauty and was sometimes called a society butterfly by people who did n't know very much about it . Her father was wealthy and her mother came of an extremely blue-blooded family . Frances had been out for three years , and was a social favourite . Consequently , it may be wondered why she was unhappy . In plain English , Frances Farquhar had been jilted -- just a commonplace , everyday jilting !
She had been engaged to Paul Holcomb ; he was a very handsome fellow , somewhat too evidently aware of the fact , and XXXXX was very deeply in love with him -- or thought herself so , which at the time comes to pretty much the same thing .
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