"She wouldn't like to be bothered with him, either," said Gran'ma Mullins.
"I know," said Susan. "That's what's making so few people like to get married nowadays. They don't want to be bothered with each other."
Mrs. Lathrop fixed her little, black, beady eyes hard on Susan.
Susan stared straight ahead.
IX
SUSAN CLEGG'S PRACTICAL FRIEND
"Mrs. Sperrit can't stand it no longer, and she's going visiting," announced Susan Clegg to the three friends who, seated together on Mrs. Macy's piazza, had been awaiting her return from down-town. Both Mrs. Macy and Gran'ma Mullins were now back in their own houses after the temporary absence due to the cyclone, and Mrs. Lathrop and she who might yet be her daughter-in-law were reëstablished as their paying guests.
"Why, I never knew that Mr. Sperrit was that kind of a man," said Gran'ma Mullins, opening her eyes very wide indeed. "I wouldn't say he's han'some, and I wouldn't say he's entertaining; but I always thought they got on well together."