“There’s nothing in it about anybody named Susan. It is signed by some woman named Kate.”
“Then the place has gone out of the family. Susan Endicott is the person who gave your mother her blue-edged china.”
Jean was listening with one ear, but her eyes were snapping.
“After you have given two lectures at New Haven, you are going to a town called Wickford and talk to girls about Roman ladies! Goodness gracious peter me, and all I have that’s fit to wear is a blouse.”
“My child, there is no reason why you should not have a new dress. You have two double-eagles that came from Susan Endicott. You inherited one from your brother and one was sent to you as you lay in your cradle. Susan may be dead. But if she isn’t, and if you will call on her in Wickford, I’ll take you east.”
“Of course I’ll call on her. What is her married name?”
“Susan Endicott Hogg, a widow.”
Chapter 63. Europium
The Wickford lecture was over, and Kate Coggeshall was shaking the lecturer’s hand.
A girl turned to her neighbor. “Did you ever see such beautiful hair?”